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- All India Forum for Right to Education Slams Centre Over Slash in Sector's Budget
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- Karnataka Assembly Passes Resolution Against NEET
- ‘No Report’ on Manual Scavenging Incidents in Last 5 Years: Social Justice Ministry
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- Incessant Rains Put Mumbai Under Red Alert as City Grapples With Waterlogging, Delayed Flights
- Globally, Highest Number of ‘Undernourished’ People Are In India: UN Report
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Law
Why Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita's Ambitious Timelines to Dispense Justice Won't Work
Successor to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the BNSS proposes new timelines for conducting trials and delivering justice. However, without addressing issues regarding infrastructure, personnel and other things that aid speedy justice altering timelines would put the criminal justice system in an unwinnable race against time.
27 Jul
Government
Lok Sabha Polls: 'Sharp Spike in Final Voter Turnout Greater Than Thin Victory Margin for NDA in 79 Seats'
The Election Commission is yet to respond to the report compiled by Vote for Democracy, a Maharashtra-based citizens platform, which has made at least three sets of claims over election results in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, notable for a polarised environment and the absence of a level playing field for all parties.
26 Jul
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Labour
Budget 2024: A Lacklustre Response to India's Deepening Employment Crisis
To truly bridge the skill gap and enhance employment prospects, a more cohesive approach towards functional literacy and competitive skilling is needed — one that aligns training programmes with job market needs, ensures sustainable funding and integrates robust mechanisms for tracking progress and impact.
26 Jul
Rights
Food Subsidy: Union Budget Betrays Those Living with Hunger and Malnutrition
Besides not providing rations to eight crore migrant/unorganised sector workers left out of the food security net, the Union government has slashed the food subsidy budget by 3.3%
25 Jul
Agriculture
SKM Says Budget Aimed Towards Corporatisation of Agriculture, Gives Call to Burn its Copies
The SKM added that the budget prepared under the duress of International Finance Capital has declared a tax exemption of 5% for MNC’s and is not ready to tax the Corporates and Super Rich.
25 Jul
Rights
Charts: The Modi Govt Has Reduced Spending For Almost All Major Social Sector Heads
These are all major schemes and essential programmes that many marginalised communities rely on.
25 Jul
Politics
‘Anti-Federal’, ‘Bribing’ Allies Says Opposition in Parliament on Union Budget
During the debate on the budget in both houses of parliament, the opposition accused the BJP-led Union government of favouring its key allies, the TDP and the JD(U), and rewarding states that have voted for the BJP.
24 Jul
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Government
Directives for Eateries on Kanwar Yatra Route to Help Maintain Law and Order: UP Govt in SC
The Yogi Adityanath government's order requiring food sellers to display the names and identities of the owners is to ensure 'transparency and informed choice' of the Kanwariyas regarding the food they eat during the pilgrimage keeping in mind their 'religious sentiments'.
26 Jul
Communalism
Allowing Govt Employees to Join RSS is a Political Attempt to Normalise Sangh's Majoritarian Agenda
The Centre’s notification is being seen as a move to conceal the cracks in the larger Sangh Parivar, as the Prime Minister has attempted to project ideological continuity to camouflage his coalition compulsions in his first-ever non-majority government.
26 Jul
Society
On the Road With the Kanwar Yatra: A Ground Report on Closures, Vandalism and Business
Are kanwar yatras indeed sites of violence? Are eatery owners indeed being inconvenienced? The Wire travels along a popular kanwariya route to find out.
26 Jul
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Security
Things Cannot Be Business as Usual in the Wake of the INS Brahmaputra Accident
Religion
After Assault of Muslim Man, Kanwariyas Leave Trail of Violence Across UP and Uttarakhand
Politics
Why the Latest Stance of NSCN (IM) on Manipur Conflict is a Bolt from Blue
Communalism
Allowing Govt Employees to Join RSS is a Political Attempt to Normalise Sangh's Majoritarian Agenda
Society
On the Road With the Kanwar Yatra: A Ground Report on Closures, Vandalism and Business
Politics
Channi-Bittu Sparring and AAP MP's 'Jail Budget Cut' Jibe Dominate Parliament Session
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Cattle Transporters Lynched in Chhattisgarh: Who Killed Chand, Saddam and Guddu?
The Special Investigation Team in its charge sheet has told the court that the three men jumped off the bridge and were not attacked by anyone.
26 Jul
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Hope Elections are Held in J&K and Their Assembly Approves it’s Own Budget Next Year: Supriya Sule
"If you can hold national elections in Jammu and Kashmir, parliamentary elections are held, then why not assembly elections?" the NCP MP questioned.
25 Jul
Politics
Central Hall | 'The Tussle in BJP Is Not Between 2 Leaders, But Delhi and Lucknow': Akhilesh Yadav
In the 30-minute conversation, Akhilesh speaks on how the BJP has always accused the SP of catering to the "MY" or Muslim Yadav voter base and how this played a role in ticket distribution this time. "I wanted to defeat the BJP's 'MY' – Modi-Yogi," he says.
25 Jul
Government
Decoding the Budget: Does It Do Enough to Revive Jobs and Private Investment?
Yamini Aiyar says there is a need to organically manage the transition from informal to formal economy, from agriculture to industry, from rural to urban sector.
24 Jul
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Security
Kargil: The People Who Didn't Do Their Job – and Those Who Did
Had we not slept and had our people who matter remembered what Kautilya had written two and a half millennia ago – ‘intelligence should underpin all aspects of governance’ – we would not have been caught silly, as we were.
26 Jul
History
In Photos: 25 Years Since the Kargil War Ended, the Past and Present of an Operation
These images are taken over the years, and this year especially, to show how India has regarded its border management and how the war shaped it.
26 Jul
Labour
Unravelling RBI’s 'Unemployment' Houdini Act
Far from the enormous increase in employment reported by the RBI's KLEMS data, the situation is of an unprecedented level of disguised unemployment.
25 Jul
Caste
UP, Madhya Pradesh Register Highest Crimes Against SCs and STs, Rajasthan Numbers Double, Govt Says
In Rajasthan, instances of atrocities against the community doubled from 4,607 in 2018 to 8,752 in 2022.
25 Jul
Environment
'Man & Nature Are Indestructible Entities,': Gems From Chapter On Climate Change in Economic Survey
Chapter 13 in the Economic Survey of India, which purports to offer an Indian lens to the problem of climate change, is a joke in bad taste, and an insult to millions of Indian dealing with climate induced disasters.
25 Jul
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Books
Book Excerpt: Bharat Mata's Children at War as a Viral Video Sparks a National Debate
This excerpt from Prayaag Akbar’s novel 'Mother India' reflects on an incident that happened at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and showcases how it affected and shaped things for the protagonist.
25 Jul
Books
A Fragmented Memory of Independent India and the Kashmir That Once Was
His depiction of the Srinagar neighbourhoods he inhabited, the institutions he was part of and the historical events he witnessed, add fresh texture to the accounts from Kashmir we are already familiar with.
21 Jul
Culture
Momin Khan Momin: An Unfinished Portrait
Momin’s sharp mind was always searching for new fields to conquer. He became interested in astrology and palmistry and ramal. There are several stories about his expertise in this field.
20 Jul
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World
'Will Not Be Silent': Kamala Harris Says She Made Concerns on Gaza 'Clear' to Benjamin Netanyahu
Harris, who is set to be the Democrats' nominee for president, said she had a "frank and constructive meeting" with Netanyahu.
26 Jul
Diplomacy
Jaishankar Wants 'Strong Guidance' to Finish Disengagement at Border, 'Meet Us Halfway' Says Wang
It was Indian external affairs minister's second meeting in a month with Wang Yi, after the two met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Kazakhstan on July 4.
25 Jul
South-asia
'Urgently Disclose Full Details' on Protests: UN Human Rights Chief to Bangladesh Government
Volker Türk urged the Sheikh Hasina-led government 'to ensure all law enforcement operations abide by international human rights norms and standards'.
25 Jul
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Film
The Making of Girish Karnad's 'Utsav,' a Film Ahead of Its Time
"The story of the making of Utsav is as tangled and as prone to swinging wildly between melodrama and comedy as the plot of the original Mricchakatika on which it is based," films's director, Girish Karnad wrote.
26 Jul
Labour
Job Dissatisfaction and Family Difficulties Turned Agniveer to Crime: Punjab Police
Police said that it was found that Ishmeet Singh did not return to his Agniveer posting after his two-month leave.
26 Jul
Rights
People With Disabilities Need Bureaucrats Who Are Allies, Not Adversaries
Telangana IAS officer Smita Sabharwal has continued to show her ignorance about disability issues and continues to insult her colleagues with disabilities.
26 Jul
Law
States Have Power to Impose Tax on Mines & Minerals: Supreme Court
While Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud authored the majority opinion for himself and the eight other judges, the lone dissenting opinion was authored by Justice B.V. Nagarathna.
26 Jul
Law
‘RSS Was Wrongly Banned, Took Govt 5 Decades to Realise Mistake’: MP High Court
"Aspirations of many central government employees of serving the country in many ways, therefore got diminished in these five decades because of this ban," the court said.
26 Jul
Government
UCC: Asked of Law Commission's ‘Neither Necessary Nor Desirable’ View, Meghwal Gives Non-Answer
Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas had asked the government if it proposed to implement a uniform civil code and of the 21st law commission's remarks on the subject.
26 Jul
Government
Rashtrapati Bhawan's Durbar Hall Renamed 'Ganatantra Mandap', Ashok Hall is Now 'Ashok Mandap'
Among the two halls, while the Durbar Hall is used for ceremonies such as the National Awards, the Ashok Hall was earlier a ballroom and is now used for special occasions.
26 Jul
Education
We Must Tackle the Crisis of Stagnancy Affecting Our Technical Education Institutes
While blaming students is easy, one must not forget that they are a part of society and hence act as a mirror to what is happening around us.
26 Jul