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The Industrial Relations Code (IRC) has unnecessarily sought to legislate on “matters” for negotiations between negotiating union/negotiating council (NU/NC) and employers [Section 14(1)]. Like in the past, it should have been left to the parties to determine depending on the empirical realities facing them at various points of time.

Thirty years ago, on August 24 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and resigned from his role as general secretary.

The National Monetisaton Pipeline might well turn out to be another pipedream turning sour, just as Modi’s demonetisation did, producing a result that was exactly the opposite of what was promised. Demonetisation was arguably more thoughtless and arbitrary, lacking any theoretical framework, a kind of midnight madness. The monetisation, however, has an overkill of theory. It sounds very well on paper as it is couched in fancy jargons that the Niti Aayog bureaucrats are known to revel in dishing out. That is as far comparisons go. But the end result might be the same: unmitigated disaster for the nation.

With Narendra Modi and his government losing the control on the political narrative and his charisma on sustained decline owing primarily to the nine month old farmers’ satyagrah, the longest movement in Independent India, the RSS has once again become active to break the agitation. Adopting the old tried machination while its cadres and supporters have approached the Supreme Court afresh to pass an order to vacate the agitation sites of the agitators, it has deployed its Bharatiya Kisan Sangh to resort to friendly fight with the Modi government demanding minimum support price.

New Delhi: Hockey midfielder Vivek Sagar Prasad, shortlisted for the FIH Rising Star of the Year Awards 2020-21.for the second time, has described this nomination as "overwhelming."

New Delhi: Vishvanath Suresh (48kg) Vanshraj (64kg), Daksh Singh (67kg) and Jaydeep Rawat (71kg) chalked out facile victories to advance into the semi-finals, confirming their medals, on the fourth day of the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai, the Last-4 stage and confirm medals for the country.

Nine “moderate” House Democrats have joined powerful conservative forces trying to undo President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar domestic agenda.

The Centre’s delay in implementing the Code on Wages (CW) and the other three labour codes, viz. the Industrial Relations Code (IRC), the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (OSHWCC) and the Code on Social Security (CSS), indicates that they will not be implemented even by October this year.

A major development in recent weeks in the financial sector has gone largely unnoticed – Reserve Bank of India’s announcement that the central bank is considering phased introduction of its own digital currency and the Modi government’s proposal to come out with a legislation to regulate virtual currency in the country.

Shadab Chouhan, spokesperson of Peace Party, an ally of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, and Majid Hyderi, a Kashmiri and a journalist, are two of a kind. Regulars on “national television”, which is a conglomeration of the electronic news media – almost all of them beholden to the Modi Government – Shadab and Hyderi daily vociferously help BJP/RSS consolidate the Hindutva vote by helping polarize the electorate with their loud talk.