Demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes has resulted in a cash shortage. Non-cash medium of payments may be encouraged by this shortage, but, with supplies only from the domestic currency presses,...
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As demonetisation woes deepen, an Osmanabad bank does little to recover Rs. 352 crores owed by two sugar factories, but threatens 20,000 farmers who owe it Rs. 180 crores with public humiliation
What enables an obscurantist, patriarchal body such as the All India Muslim Personal Law Board to challenge the state’s authority to intervene in Muslim Personal Law is uncertainty over the...
The Adani Mining Pty Ltd is confident of commencing construction of the Carmichael mine by mid-2017, which will be Australia's largest coal mine, despite growing concerns and protests from...
The Prime Minister could continue to browbeat those in the media who criticise him. Ever since Modi came to power in Delhi there has been "a conspiracy of silence" in large sections of the national...
When the government outlawed 86 per cent of India’s currency, burying his hope of selling land to pay off growing debts, Varda Balayya of Dharmaram village in Telangana killed himself and tried to...
Documents seized by the Income Tax Department in private corporations imply pay-offs were made to the PM and leading politicians.
In Chikalthana village, the prime minister’s dream of a cashless economy seems to have been realised. Nobody has any cash.
The entry of the media to the open court to report its proceedings is a constitutional right, not a special favour of the judges or advocates. Court proceedings and wider functioning of the judiciary...
An appeal by teachers of the JNU
K Chandrasekhar Rao has increased the number of districts in Telangana from 11 to 31 ostensibly to improve administration. But the move seems aimed at consolidating his party’s support base.
While Hillary Clinton’s campaign has received a boost in recent weeks because of the crass demeanour of her political opponent, there are stark similarities between the rise of Donald Trump in the US...
The Expert Committee on Land Leading chaired by T Haque has among other things, prepared a Model Agricultural Land Leasing Act. An analysis of the model act reveals that the act favours the lessee...
The recent decision of the United States government to cede its control over the internet’s naming and addressing system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a US-based...
It is tempting to think that a surgical strike was the only option left to tackle an intractable country. The sense of foreboding can only deepen with the directionless approach of the Indian...
