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Being tethered to bars during a pandemic Updated: Updated: January 18, 2021 23:28 IST In India, COVID-19 must lead to an immediate review of the vulnerability of those in jail and the issue of decongestion Share Article AAA In India, COVID-19 must lead to an immediate review of the vulnerability of those in jail and the issue of decongestion A distance of two yards — do ghazh ki duri — we are enjoined to maintain between oneself and anyone else. The ‘pandemic’ message is relayed on...

UPDATED: January 17, 2021 08:49 IST New dawn: Farmers burn copies of the new farm laws while celebrating Lohri at the Ghazipur border protest site in Delhi (Photo: ANI) As the national capital settled in for its coldest winter in the past 15 years, it did little to thaw the tensions between the government and the protesting farm unions. However, in a dramatic intervention on January 12, the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramaniam suspended the implem...

by Sathyajith M S - Jan 15, 2021 09:30 AM The Supreme Court has not cited any glaring unconstitutionality to stay the laws. Snapshot While it is true that the court has stayed farm laws to uphold fair play, it sets a precedent that will encourage protests against government reforms. The Supreme Court stayed the implementation of the farm laws based on several petitions filed against the laws, and the protests associated with it. This order of the apex court sets a precedent wherein interest gro...

Friday, January 15, 2021 2020 was the year in which the world went more digital than ever before, owing to the pandemic that altered life as we knew it. One of the silver linings of the year was the spotlight on the importance of data and data flow. Taking this cue, the Indian Government took significant steps in tech policy and data regulation in 2020, viz. non-personal data, health data, financial data, and data related to e-commerce and other consumer facing services. The judiciary...

FHRAI Urge Govt to Put Tourism Under Concurrent List, Give Industry Status to Hospitality Sector By siliconindia  |  Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 12:49 Hrs The Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India has recently requested the government in the letter addressed to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister of State for Tourism (IC),  Ministry of Tourism, Government of India to include tourism under concurrent list ...

The Supreme Court has proposed a committee to resolve stalemate between protesting farmers' unions and the Centre over the three farm laws. Is it an end to farmers’ protest or agri laws?

Paul Obi “A pragmatist turns away…from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions and from bad a priori reasons; from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy; towards facts, towards action and towards power.” –––William James To assess the viability of a democracy and its survival; start by measuring the number of political elites who oppose undemocratic policies. Then, x-ray the quality of debate wi...

BW Businessworld Indias Federal Structure, How Does It Affect Agriculture? Federalism is one of the key pillars of the legislative division of power in the Indian context. It lies in between unitary government, with a strong center, and confederal government with a loose center. Photo Credit : Reuters Agriculture has been on the government agenda since the First Five Year Plan, which focused primarily on farm and farmer development. Since then, we have witnessed the green revolution, round revo...

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh accused Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state president Bhagwant Mann of spreading lies after he alleged a collusion between the Chief Minister and the Governor over sending the agriculture laws, passed unanimously in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha to negate the centre's farm laws, to the President.

India News: The scope of the government's offer to refer dispute over the three farm laws is narrower than intially assumed. Sources said the suggestion is restri