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Emergency financing is the main instrument which the Narendra Modi Government is using in the current period of pandemic to bring about economic recovery. The situation as of now has gone out of hands and nearly four months after the first lock down in the country was announced on March 24, the economic situation needs some hard nosed practical policies taking into account the ground reality.

Irrespective of what happens to the petition by Rajasthan Assembly Speaker in the Supreme Court, questioning the Rajasthan High Court’s restraint on him to act on the notices issued to rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot and 18 other MLAs, remarks made by a bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, Bhushan Gavai and Krishna Murari must set all democracy enthusiasts thinking about the right to dissent that our current form of democracy allows.

In 1959, when Indira Gandhi was elected president of the Congress, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had to face criticism for promoting his daughter. Significantly, he was quick to deny this was his intention “I am certainly not grooming her as my successor,” Nehru told his critics. “In fact for some time I was mentally opposed to the idea.”

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a double whammy for the embattled Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Passive approach of the dalit leaders, especially of Mayawati and Chandrashekhar Azad on the police torture and state repression of writer and poet Varavara Rao, lawyer and activist Sudha Bhardwaj, academic and activist Vernon Gonsalves, and human rights activists Arun Ferreira and Gautam Navlakha has been quite intriguing.

At a time when there is a surge of cases of Coronavirus in India, the northeastern state of Assam has to battle another crisis — floods. Already, the deluge has affected 26 out of total 33 districts of the state. It is not that the north-eastern state isn’t battling the Corona crisis — already the cases have crossed the figure of 30,000.

New Delhi: Thrice hockey Olympic medallist - a Gold and two-bronze- Harbinder Singh on Friday opined that Manpreet Singh led squad has a great opportunity to regain glory in the Olympics next year at Tokyo, in a city where India had won the gold way back in 1964.

The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is a major issue now a days which needs to be answered for brining clarity. Even those who will be affected by numerous infrastructure projects that are in the pipeline do not know about it. It needs to be widely advertised so that people and stakeholders can voice their opinion and reservations. But in the midst of the pandemic is it going to be heard or even possible? It is ethically wrong for the government to make monumental changes that will impact the lives of the people during the pandemic. The country is worried about their health and security and this crisis should not be used as a distraction by the government to make such life altering decisions.

National Platform of Central Trade Unions that includes INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC along with sectoral federations and associations has called upon working class to observe August 9 as “SAVE INDIA DAY” and also CTUs and other PSUs to observe Solidarity Actions on August 18 as Coal Strike Day.

India’s Covid numbers have risen, outstripping Brazil’s, and are second only to that of the United States. The news report proclaimed this “fact” louder than the racket made by the falling waters of the Niagara on the US-Canada border. But wait, a caveat first: This claim is based on numbers for the week ending July 22, not the "entire" period. Overall Brazil still beats India by over 100,000. And the United States remains untouchable with nearly 500,000! Yes, a lot of fakery is on and about, going around us regarding Covid and this is in line with the doubts surrounding the origins of the coronavirus, which continues to wallow in the warlike waters of the South China Sea.