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The Parliament of India has passed the highly contended Farm Bills. These bills stirred up trouble and were uninvited by the farmers. Bandhs, Roadblocks and Rallies were organized in the states of Punjab and Haryana. The Kisan Union and...
Day to Day commodities of daily household no longer essential commodities
Union Minister for Health Harsh Vardhan speaks in Rajya Sabha on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Photo Credits: PTI
The monsoon parliament that took place amidst the pandemic captured countless instances to talk about. As many as 25 new bills were...
While the Modi government struggles to contain the spread of the catastrophic virus, the monsoon session of the Parliament has been scheduled from 14th September to 1st October for this year. The current Parliament session was speculated to have...
Earlier, Journalist Awesh Tiwari, posted a review in Hindi, summarizing a fresh report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). To explain, the report highlighted the growing intimacy between the Indian Facebook executive and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). Explicitly, it...
On August 05, 2019 Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister introduced a Constitutional Amendment in the Indian Parliament abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution. As a result of this split the state into the two centrally governed Union Territories...
38 PSUs used their Corporate Social Responsibility funds to together contribute over Rs 2,105 crore to the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) fund since its launching on March 28. The Indian Express accessed...
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on July 31, 2020, sent questions to Airtel & Vodafone Idea on their priority 4G plans. Earlier, TRAI had asked Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea to block their premium Platinum and RedX plans. This was done after Reliance Jio made a...
Three years after launching of the GST, the centre has for the first time admitted that it has no money to pay the state governments their share of GST compensation as promised under the GST law.
Even before the lockdown,...
The BJP Government opposed the scrutiny of the PM-CARES Fund pertaining to the Coronavirus Relief.
The inclusion of Foreign Universities through the National Education Policy is one of the key points of the Policy.
India ranks among the worst countries for the working class.
Recently, under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the Delhi Police blocked the website of Fridays For Future India, There Is No Earth B and Let India Breathe. Explicitly, the Police over sighted their actions to be a threat...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) regarding allegations that the body appointed an agency linked to a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office-bearer to deal with its social media...
The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 replaced the former Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
The removal of essential sections of political history from NCERT Textbooks by the HRD Ministry.
In a parliamentary panel meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), it failed to reach a consensus on examining the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The agenda included PM-CARES Fund and general scrutiny of the government's efforts in...
The Department for promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPITT), introduced India's latest 15-page E-commerce policy draft. The proposed draft seeks to subject industry tech giants to periodic audits. With access to a number of companies' codes and algorithms,...
The Centre on 30 June 2020, declared the entire Nagaland as “disturbed area”; for a period of six months. In essence, till December-end.
The Ministry of Home Affairs stated in a notification that the central government; believes that the area...
The stage is set. Let the auction begin. Just as the Centre began auctioning off the coal blocks for commercial mining, the Jharkhand Government moved the Apex Court. It filed a plea in the SC seeking postponement of the...
Mr. Sharad Kumar Saraf, President of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations, recently reacted to the double-digit decline in imports last month. Though the fall was still drastic, he claims that the situation improved considerably when compared to April....