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Nirmala Sitharaman Won’t Present A Full-Fledged Budget This Year; What’s The Reason?

Snehashish RoyJanuary 24, 20240

The 17th Lok Sabha’s final and short Budget session will take place from January 31 to February 9. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the interim budget for 2024-25 on February 1 during the session. However, she will not table the full budget in the Parliament, but only a vote on account or interim budget in the House. The reason for not presenting a full budget this year The Union government presents an Interim Budget in an election year, which shows the expected revenues and expenditures until a new government comes to power. This interim budget helps the government to meet its financial commitments. A new and complete Budget will be announced in July after the formation of the new government. An Interim Budget is also called a ‘vote-on-account’. Acc...

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As Massive Crowd Throngs Ayodhya, Ram Mandir Chief Priest Says City Returns To ‘Treta Yug’

Snehashish RoyJanuary 23, 20240

Acharya Satyendra Das, the chief priest of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, was overjoyed to see a large number of devotees coming to Ayodhya to worship Ram Lalla after the temple was opened to the public. He said that the temple town had returned to the era of ‘Treta Yug’ (the second of four Yugas in Hinduism), when Lord Ram lived there. “The (Ayodhya) Nagari became pure after Pran Pratishtha. The Ayodhya Nagari was happy when Lord Ram returned in the Treta Yug…Today, we can see a glimpse of the Treta Yug. So many Bhakts have arrived in Ayodhya and Jai Shree Ram slogans are resounding here; it feels like we are in Ayodhya of the Treta Yug times,” the chief priest said. The chief priest also said that not everyone would get a chance to worship Lord Ram today, beca...

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Rahul Gandhi Faces Trouble: Assam CM Ask Police To Lodge Case Against Congress MP Dor ‘Stirring Up Crowd’

Snehashish RoyJanuary 23, 20240

On Tuesday, Assam’s chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma ordered the state police to take legal action against Rahul Gandhi for “inciting the crowd” as Congress workers were prevented from entering Guwahati during the ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. “Such ‘Naxalite tactics’ have no place in Assamese culture. We are in a state of peace and harmony. I have asked @DGPAssamPolice to file a case against your leader @RahulGandhi for stirring up the crowd & use the video you have shared on your handles as proof,” the Assam CM posted on X (formerly Twitter). About 5,000 Congress workers, accompanied by Rahul Gandhi, attempted to enter Guwahati on Tuesday but were stopped by the police as the party resumed its main ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Assam today. This led to a confrontation bet...

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Manipur’s BJP MLA says on Modi’s ‘deafening silence’ over ethnic violence: ‘PM has misplaced priorities’

Snehashish RoyJuly 24, 20230

Forget about 79 days, for such a scale of violence, even a week (of delay in response) is a long time, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Manipur Paolienlal Haokip said criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's press statement on the ethnic violence in the northeastern state after a ‘deafening silence’. As a representative of the Kuki-Zomi community in the state, the BJP MLA believes PM Modi's priorities are ‘entirely misplaced’, as he recalled his unsuccessful attempt to reach the Prime Minister before he left for the US State visit. In an interview with Newslaundry, Haokip said, without discounting the importance of international relations (as a part of the PM's US visit), it is a ‘modicum of humanity’ to pay attention to resolve the matter where people are getting killed, which i...

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Centre Uproots PFI: Consequences Its Members, Employees Likely To Face

Snehashish RoySeptember 28, 20220

According to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), 1967, the Centre has designated the Popular Front of India (PFI) as an "unlawful association." State police and federal law enforcement agencies now have the authority to detain organisation members, freeze their accounts, and even seize their property. Following are some serious repercussions that might occur in accordance with the law: The UAPA makes belonging to a prohibited organisation a crime in Section 10. According to the law, belonging to a prohibited organisation carries a two-year minimum punishment that, in some cases, can be increased to a life sentence or even the death penalty. A person who "is and continues to be a member of such association, or participates in meetings of such association, or contribu...

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Urban Governance: The Area Where India Lags Most

Snehashish RoySeptember 16, 20220

The fact that Bengaluru lacks an elected government significantly worsened the issue as the city experienced severe flooding over the previous week. The state government presently appoints bureaucrats to oversee the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike council because the tenure of the previous elected council ended in 2020. One of the major cities in the globe is Bengaluru. More than eight million people live in the Greater Bengaluru region, which is comparable to the population of Switzerland. The fact that it lacks an elected government is, to put it simply, astonishing and highlights what is likely India's worst governance weakness: a lacklustre, essentially nonexistent autonomous urban governance. What's visible in urban governance? India has 675 million urban residents. This f...

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GST System After Five Years: Political Discomfort That Still Continue To Ruffle Centre, States

Snehashish RoyJuly 28, 20220

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) system in India celebrated its fifth anniversary on July 1. The largest shift to India's fiscal framework since Independence was unquestionably introduced in 2017. By agreeing to jointly charge taxes on both commodities and services, states and the Union consolidated a wide range of indirect taxes under one broad guise. The states and the Centre used to have separate roles from which they could make their own money. GST was introduced to the Indian populace with tremendous excitement. At the time, Arun Jaitley, the Union finance minister, asserted that it would increase economic growth by an astounding 1% to 2%. Supporters said that the single, straightforward tax would boost tax revenues and make it simpler for businesses to comply. Magnified advan...

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Mamata Banerjee’s ‘Muri’ Politics Over Fight Against GST Hike

Snehashish RoyJuly 22, 20220

Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, is quite upset about the application of the GST on puffed rice. On July 21, when speaking at her party's annual Martyrs' Day rally in Kolkata, she pulled some 'muri' (puffed rice) from her purse and summoned a vendor to the stage to make a furious point about the taxation of the food item. The typical 'muri' In the streets of Kolkata and other state cities and towns, in markets, and in the local trains that connect the suburbs with the state's capital, it's difficult to miss the 'muri' — known as 'murmura' in northern and western India — vendors. They vigorously shake their steel containers while adding chopped onions, green chillies, coriander leaves, peanuts, and a dash of mustard oil to the puffed rice to rustle up 'jhaal muri

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Kanishka Bombing: Ripudaman Singh’s Death And 1985 Aircraft Tragedy

Snehashish RoyJuly 20, 20220

Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was shot dead on Thursday (July 14) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, was cleared of all charges in 2005 by a Canadian court relating to the 1985 bombing of an Air India plane, which resulted in the deaths of 329 passengers and crew. Along with Malik, two other individuals were accused; one of them was found guilty of perjury. Inderjit Singh Reyat, the subject, was freed from custody in 2016. Like Malik, the other man, Ajaib Singh Bagri, was found not guilty. The majority of the terrorist attack's victims were Canadians. What is the bombing case in Kanishka? On June 23, 1985, an explosive device detonated on Air India Flight 182, which was en route from Montreal to London and with New Delhi as its final destination. The wide-bodied Boeing 747 jumbo aeropl

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Assamese-Speaking Muslims Get ‘Indigenous’ Status: Know About Their Origin, Distribution

Snehashish RoyJuly 12, 20220

The 'indigenous' Muslims of Assam are distinct in their ancestry, different from Muslims who speak Bengali. The Assam government has recently officially identified five sub-groups of Muslims in Assam, namely, Moriya, Goriya, Deshi, Julha and Syed as indigenous. The Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam have their ancestry in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, and have migrated into the state at different times. They consist of a larger Muslim population in the state. They are also referred to as Miyas. Two broad categories of Muslims in Assam Post annexation of Assam into British India in 1826, the Bengali-speaking Muslims started migrating into the region and thus, contributing to the majority of the Muslim population. However, Muslims who speak Assamese are broad in terms of sub-catego...

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Russian Invasion: Road Ahead For Ukraine Conflict Amid Fall Of Luhansk

Snehashish RoyJuly 5, 20220

Russia proclaimed victory in the battle of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine after several months of broiling as Ukraine withdrew from the city citing it as a tactical measure. The city will be handed over to the Russian-backed Luhansk People's Republic, a region declared independent by Russia. The Donbas region close to the Russian border has its own significance. The region is made of two cities, Donetsk and Luhansk. It has the largest coal reserves in Ukraine. Unprecedentedly separating from the Ukrainian government in 2014, the two cities claimed their independence as two People's Republics. Russian-speaking people in the Donbas region held a belief in line with how Ukraine felt during the USSR's reign. Ukrainians had no strategic autonomy and the system was rather centralised. T...

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Udaipur Killing: Normalisation Of Public Execution To ‘Avenge’ Has Cleaved Nation’s Symmetry

Snehashish RoyJune 29, 20220

Two men killed a local tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur over the latter’s support for the former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on social media. The killers, identified as Ghouse Mohammed and Riyaz Attari, filmed the incident as they attempted to behead the tailor, Kanhaiya Kumar, with a cleaver. Sharma sparked global outrage with her remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. Posting videos online, the killers said brandishing swords that they have avenged the insult to Islam, also threatened to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Condemning the incident, AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi demanded Nupur Sharma’s arrest and slammed the Rajasthan Police for not taking strict action to prevent the killing. “I strongly condemn the Udaipur incident…we hope the Rajasthan government takes strict action...

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