Insurgent threats in North-East: AFSPA remains relevant
During the pre-independence era, the densely forested and mountainous north-eastern States of India consisted of several tribal ethnicities like Ahoms, Bodos, Kukis, Nagas, Mizos, Meitis, Chakmas, Garos, Kaisis, Maras, Reangs, Ao, Angami, Sema, Lotha, Tangkhul, Konyak, Rengma and Mao, who often warred amongst each other.
Making Factories Act more amenable to present times
The Lok Sabha on August 10, 2016, passed the The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha by Minister for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya. The Bill seeks to amend the Factories Act, 1948.
Asked to prove charges against RSS, tiger Rahul turns sheep
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has learnt it the hard way that, as part of election rhetoric, it’s easier to blame an organisation for a killing than to substantiate the accusation legally. Dragged to the court for alleging that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was…
There is no party as shameless as Congress in India
The Congress party through Anand Sharma made a puerile statement on Friday 19th August, regarding the BJP, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), RSS and the freedom movement. The statement was puerile because it had either emanated from a…..
An important step towards reducing litigations among workforce
The Lok Sabha on August 9, 2016, unanimously passed the Employee’s Compensation (Amendment) Bill, 2016, to reduce litigation in cases of disputes arising over compensation to workers.
Urjit Patel’s appointment: Strong message for Modi regime critics
The appointment of Urjit Patel as the new Governor of Reserve Bank of India (he takes over in the first week of September) has been analysed and welcomed from an economic point of view by experts. But there is a political message as well.
National Disaster Management Plan, 2016: Making Provisions for the Disaster Risks Reduction
On 1st June 2016, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi released India’s first ever National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP), 20161. The National Plan is produced by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
Modi Doctrine: A new foreign policy for India
A book of essays by a clutch of eminent diplomats and analysts, co-edited by Anirban Ganguly, Director of the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Foundation, Vijay Chauthaiwale of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the BJP, and Uttam Kumar Sinha from IDSA and the Banaras Hindu University, was released on the evening of August 13 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Solar energy: The new hope to electrify a development-oriented India
India is an agricultural land which thrives on sunlight to feed the nation. While the potential and culture of our farming economy are under continuous stress, there still exists an opportunity to change the shaky framework of accepted norms.
A new samudra manthan: Fresh look at India’s civilisational history
Sanjeev Sanyal is no historian, and thank god for that. The history that we are made to learn while growing up, and the historical narratives which most of us come across, have remained largely within the parameters meticulously established by the ideological framework of the tellers of such history.
