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A protest against the surge in prices and shortage of fuel and other essential commodities in Colombo on April 1.

Roots of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis

Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis is rooted in its long dalliance with IMF-imposed conditionalities and has been aggravated by the Rajapakse governm

Farmers transporting harvested paddy on the outskirts of Guwahati on June 2, 2020. The losses for farmers from the absence of markets and lower prices is estimated to run into thousands of crores of rupees.

The Union Budget is marked by an overall compression of expenditures for agriculture

The Budget shows no commitment to agricultural growth or farmers’ welfare. Against the background of the raging farmers’ agitation, this is only likel

Congress president Rahul Gandhi during the press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi on March 25 in which he announced the NYAY scheme.

NYAY: No bridge between two Indias

A closer look at the Congress party’s proposed income transfer scheme.

A farmer in his dried up paddy field at Thummalapalli in Penuballi mandal of Khammam district on January 25, 2019.

Crumbs for farmers

Hidden in the Modi government’s Budget promises to India’s farmers, who are in distress, is the admission: we have failed you.

Consumers at a protest demanding that LPG supply be delinked from Aadhaar, in Visakhapatnam on January 6, 2014.

Tracing the struggle

The verdict in the Aadhaar case is just one more milestone in the battle to secure citizen freedoms.

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Demonetisation’s devastating impact on rural India

Demonetisation is likely to adversely affect agricultural growth and shrink rural incomes and consumer demand. It has already created a serious credib

Freedom in peril

The government’s passage of the Aadhaar Bill in complete disregard of even basic parliamentary procedures and in subversion of an ongoing judicial pro

Seeds of distress

Arun Jaitley’s latest budget, which refuses to address issues such as the crisis of profitability or paucity of state credit, fails to make any effort

Ramgarh,Jharkhand 9th Dec 2012-Story Photo:: Banking Correspondent Rajesh Kumar makes pension and MNREGA
payments to beneficiaries in Dohakatu village in Ramgarh district adjoining Ranchi on Sunday.Photo-Manob Chowdhury

Mirage of inclusion

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the Narendra Modi government’s attempt at financial inclusion of the poor, is unlikely to prove effective because

Outside a cooking gas refilling station in Srinagar on November 15.-NASSAR AHMAD

Cash evangelism

The dogmatic insistence on wholesale substitution of existing schemes by direct cash transfers will limit the states role in the provision of essentia

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate Mitt Romney speaks on health care in Washington, D.C.-CHARLES DHARAPAK/AP

Hardly a model

In the U.S. and Europe, private health insurance has weakened public sector insurance, excluded millions from insurance cover, raised premiums, and le

Nandan Nilekani, UIDAI Chairman. In an interview he said the Biometric Standards Committee had recommended the inclusion of iris to the biometric modalities, which is not true.-K. MURALI KUMAR

A tale of errors

Contrary to the claims of the UIDAI, fingerprints are a highly inappropriate tool to uniquely identify individuals.