K R Shyam Sundar This article analysing the recently published Industrial Relations (Central) Recognition of Negotiating Union or Negotiating Council and Adjudication of Disputes of Trade Unions Rules, 2021, points out issues with the criteria for recognition of a union in…
Chandrachur Singh Unprecedented times solicit unprecedented policy responses that are both innovative and effective. Given the rate of the spread of the coronavirus and its ravaging impacts, the need for innovative and participatory health management policies focussed on enabling basic access in…
Indira Khurana The pandemic has laid bare the correlation between economic growth, environment and human conditions — avoiding which could come at great cost. In March 2021, the WHO established the Council on Economics of Health for All which will…
Arun Kumar The Union finance minister promised that the Union Budget for 2021-22 would be a ‘once in a century’ budget. What she has presented is far short of what she needed to if the current economic problems had to…
Arun Kumar The year 2021 has been widely projected to be much better than 2020 with the start of vaccination and the expected reduction of coronavirus cases and deaths. Economies were expected to recover faster from the abyss into which…
Arun Kumar The stand-off between the farmers and the government has persisted for weeks, with the Supreme Court now mulling intervention in the form of a committee that could be set up to solve the issue. The farmers, not trusting the government,…