HIGH DEBT VS DUTY HIKES
Shivaji Sarkar
The Union Budget to be tabled on 1 February has many hearts beating, a lot of hopes rising and will set the pace for the economy. However, the high expectations may not match the formulations that are unlikely to be easy, if not tough.
Amid the raucous voices on the farm laws, RSS top leader Suresh Bhaiyaji Joshi has suggested a middle path to resolve the issue. A top magazine survey reports that 73 per cent of people have faith in Prime Minister Modi which the pandemic, recession and protests could not dent.
This makes the government confident in presenting its Budget proposals which are likely to have some sops but may have many sugar-coated harsh pills. Also, some showpiece programmes may have to be kept in abeyance.
One Year Of Amaravati Protests: Why Andhra s Capital Gains Do Not Deserve To Be Trifurcated
by Vamsi Viraj - Jan 23, 2021 12:11 PM
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy
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But the current state government is adamant on dividing the capital among three cities.
On 17 December 2020, the struggle of Andhra farmers in the Amaravati region to retain it as the sole capital of the state completed a year.
Bucking the trend of massive protests
against land acquisition in modern India, Amaravati farmers have been protesting the governmentâs decision not to develop this region.
Pending central interference and verdicts of the higher judiciary on multiple petitions, there would be a trifurcation of the stateâs capital functions, gutting any development of Amaravati as
Avinash Kumar Yadav, a third-year student at National Law University, Delhi, India, discusses the recent Love Jihad law in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India and the effect it has on the fundamental right to marry.
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 (“the Ordinance”) popularly known as the law on ‘Love Jihad’, was approved by the state cabinet on 24 November 2020 and received the assent of the Governor of Uttar Pradesh (“UP”) on 28 November 2020 making it enforceable. Section 3 of the ordinance states that no person shall convert or attempt to convert directly or otherwise any person from one religion to another by use or any practice of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage, nor should any person abet convince or conspire such conversion. The law makes religious conversion a cognizable and non-bailable offence, which might attract punishment of up to 10 yea
Look hard. Do you see any woman among the protesting farmers? The reason is simple Women hardly own agricultural land. Lakshadweep and Meghalaya are the best among all the 35 states and Union Territories at providing land rights to women; Punjab and West Bengal are the worst, according to an index created by the Bhubaneswar-based Centre for Land Governance, an arm of consultancy firm NR Management Consultants. The index was prepared using the data on women’s operational holdings from the agriculture census of 2011, the share of adult women owning farm land from the Indian Human Development Survey of 2011-12, the share of women-headed households owning land from the Socio-economic Caste Census of 2011, and the share of women owning house and/or land (alone or jointly) from the National Family Health Survey of 2015-16.