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Among a number of farmer-specific schemes, announced or planned, across the country ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Odisha government has come up with a support scheme whose primary targets are small farmers, cultivators and landless agricultural labourers....
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe 24th Conference of the Parties (COP-24) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held at Katowice in Poland, brings little cheer on the climate front for developing countries. With the passage of the so-called “rulebook” for the...
Read Online Download Pdf fileIn 2010-2013, I was principal designer of three basic income pilots in West Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, in which over 6,000 men, women and children were provided with modest basic incomes, paid in cash, monthly, without conditions. The money was not much, coming to about...
Read Online Download Pdf file.One of the first decisions of the newly elected Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan has been to scrap the minimum educational qualification criteria for candidates contesting local body elections. This reverses the amendments introduced by the previous government of...
Read Online Download Pdf fileDuring the Lok Sabha debate on the Constitution amendment Bill to provide a quota in jobs and education for the “economically weaker sections”, Congress’s K V Thomas said “this Bill has to be passed by a two-thirds majority, and then, 50 per...
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe Narendra Modi government started its innings in 2014 with a constitutional amendment giving the government a vital say in the appointment of judges. But the apex court struck it down as unconstitutional in 2016 as the amendment undermined the primacy of the opinion...
Read Online Download Pdf fileIn focusing on the scale of Sheikh Hasina’s victory in the general election a few days ago and the allegations of rigging by her opponents in Bangladesh, it is easy to miss the significant structural change unfolding in Bangladesh and its long-term...
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe Second World War left behind many problems inherited from history, not least in Asia in respect of multiple disputed territories. One of them concerns four islands in the Kurile chain ........... ...
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe vision document titled ‘Strategy for New India @ 75’, released by the NITI Aayog in December last, amongst other ............. ...
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe New Year is always looked forward to with hope, whatever the conditions might have been the previous year; 2018 has been a mixed bag, both globally and domestically............ ...
Read Online Download Pdf fileOn December 18, the Union Ministry of Power issued a seemingly anodyne memo that set the rules for the flow of electricity across South Asian borders. Evaluated against the turbulent politics around the issue, the ......... ...
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