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Sarada Mahesh
Mobile Apps and Aadhaar Seeding Cannot Solve Every Problem India Has
16 Feb 2021
Everything is a data-collection process, an excuse to seed our Aadhaar ID in a database.
Ayaskant Das
NITI Aayog Studying How Judges Can Help Economics Beat Environmental Concerns
13 Feb 2021
The government think-tank has commissioned a study to examine the “unintended economic consequences” of certain verdicts in order to review “if the objective of the judicial decision was (has been)…
Ayaskant Das
Modi Govt Easing Business in Coal Mining and Thermal Power, Ignoring Ecological Concerns
31 Jan 2021
The Ministry of Mines has issued a draft mineral auction rule giving only 13 days for stakeholders to submit objections while the Ministry of Power has sought to extend new emission deadlines for…
Prabhat Patnaik
Farm Laws: India at Cusp of Wholesale Subversion of Constitution
23 Jan 2021
Agriculture being a state subject under the Seventh Schedule means the Indian Constitution does not allow the Centre to impose its will upon the farmers of any state, not even of a single state.
Neelambaran A
With Exploitative Mills in Wait, TN’s Cane Farmers Apprehensive of New Contract Farming Law
07 Jan 2021
Sugar mills owe Rs 346 crore to farmers from Tamil Nadu in the 2018-19 season.
Vinita Deshmukh
Veil of Secrecy? RTI on Aarogya Setu Draws a Blank, Only Reveals Rs 4.15Cr Spent on Publicity
14 Sep 2020
Members of the Internet Freedom Foundation have been driven up the wall since April this year, trying to procure information on transparency and accountability under RTI from multiple government…
Tikender Singh Panwar
Ventilator Controversy: PMCares or PMCareless?
28 Aug 2020
PMCARES, a “public charitable trust”fund created by the Prime Minister on March 28, 2020, has been facing strong criticism since its inception, not just by the Opposition parties but also by all…
Arun Kumar Das
NITI Aayog Questions Railways Safety Data on Zero Deaths
19 Aug 2020
It has also questioned the significant expenditure incurred from the specially created fund to strengthen the safety mechanism and observed the absence of any advanced "technologies introduced by…
Newsclick Team
Let’s Talk: The Real Story Behind Bank Privatisation
07 Aug 2020
In this episode, we talk to journalist Aunindyo Chakravarty on the arguments made by pro-government sources on privatizing banks.
Ravi Nair, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Adani’s Plans to Privatise Airports May Go Awry
23 Jun 2020
New Delhi: After signing a binding concession agreement on February 14, 2019, to take over the operations of the international airports at Mangaluru (Karnataka), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Ahmedab