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After fertilisers, Centre wants food subsidy to directly benefit farmers -Harikishan Sharma & Anju Agnihotri Chaba

-The Indian Express In Odisha, procurement of paddy during the ongoing 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) is, for the first…

Undermining the Republic -Prashant Bhushan & Cheryl D'souza

-The Indian Express There is deliberate ambiguity regarding citizenship laws and policies, their implementation. These threaten to undermine the basic…

Bid to extend 15% tax relief duration -R. Suryamurthy

-The Telegraph Lower corporate tax of 15% valid till March 2023 The government is exploring the possibility of extending the…

Retail inflation rose to 7.35% in December — the highest since July 2014

-Scroll.in The figures breached the tolerance band of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee Retail inflation rose to…

Govt set for 20% cut in wasteful expenses -Harikishan Sharma

-The Indian Express “All ministries have been directed to reduce wasteful expenditure on travel, food and conferences by 20 percent.…

Abhijit Banerjee lauds Delhi govt schools for outperforming private peers

-PTI * There is a need for greater flexibility in the Indian education sector across all aspects, he said, calling…

Hot iron in a child's belly — A district collector's fight against superstition in a MP sistrict -Salik Ahmad

-Outlook India A district collector takes it upon himself to rid the region of a degrading practice visited upon sick…

Crime records of 2018 show 98.4% of rapes in Kerala were by men who knew the victims

-TheNewsMinute.com Among the 1972 victims of sexual assault in Kerala in 2018, 1156 are minors, below the age of 18.…

NRC, NPR wasteful exercises: 106 retd bureaucrats in open letter

-The Indian Express “At a time when the economic situation in the country warrants the closest attention of the government,…

How India remains poor: As many as 22 states have become poorer -Kiran Pandey

-Down to Earth Latest NITI Aayog counts no state as ‘achiever’; overall performance of most ‘performing’, ‘laggard’ states towards cutting…

Law Ministry did not consult any Ministry, Department on Triple Talaq Bill -Dheeraj Mishra

-TheWire.in This falls foul of the earlier legislative consultation policy issued by the same ministry, which states that any bill…

Can Assam look beyond ethnic and regional politics? -Suraj Gogoi and Rintu Borah

-Newsclick.in Today, the crisis of global migration is unsettling the logic of territorial sovereignty and citizenship that underpins the modern…

$5 trillion economy by 2024? Magic realism at play given current low -Maitreesh Ghatak

-NDTV Lately, the January releases from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) about the advanced estimates of national income have a…

Eight years in bonded labour, tribals recall horror, now hope for new life, homes -Kavitha Iyer

-The Indian Express For eight years, Kantabai Jadhav was among 14 tribal men and women, and eight children, who lived…

Haryana sees increase of 52 points in sex ratio

-Hindustan Times Chandigarh: Setting a new benchmark in male-female sex ratio, Haryana has witnessed an increase of 52 points in…