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TK Arun Wise commentary cannot substitute for political action to change the status quo By forcing the government to repeal the laws, enacted without parliamentary scrutiny or debate and devoid of prior consultation and alternative paths to prosperity for the…
Rajesh Tandon ” I have not been able to sing with my friends for so long..”Tripti (14 yrs) from Jharkhand “We have not met so many youngsters like me for two years; what fun to be together’….Naresh (16 yrs) from…
Krishna Raj The basic questions that arise about air quality management are: Has the Central government maintained reliable and historical time series data on air pollutants in the NCR? How many polluting industries are operating in the NCR? Does the…
Arun Kumar After more than a year of a stand-off between the farmers and the government, the Prime Minister in a surprise morning announcement on the occasion of the Guru Nanak Devji’s Prakash Parv has announced that the government plans…
Surinder S. Jodhka Days short of the first anniversary of the farmers’ protests, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a televised address the government had decided to repeal the three new farm laws. The prime minister also said a committee would…
T K Arun A setback it is, but it is too early to pronounce political defeat for Modi, as a retreat can be used for a lethal attack later. It is welcome that the government has decided to repeal the…
The Glasgow Climate Summit was neither a cop-out nor a grand success that has produced an action plan for halting, leave alone reversing, global warming. It is a moderate success, as grand political compromises go, and global agreements among nations at various stages of prosperity and battling different kinds of development challenges are all political compromises. The principal failure is that rich nations have not committed to delivering negative emissions, instead of net-zero emissions by 2050.