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September 16, 2026
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Naked Dance of Crony Capitalism
There are a number of issues surrounding the recent approval by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) of a repayment plan of ₹6.5 crore against claims of ₹22,006.57 crore involving Zee Group Founder and Chairman Subhash Chandra, causing a loss of 99.97 per cent to lenders. It is ludicrous to ...
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September 16, 2026
People’s BRICS Summit Calls for Concrete, Time-Bound Action on People’s Demands, Demands Alternative Development Model for Global South
New Delhi: The People’s BRICS Summit has called upon BRICS member countries to move beyond declarations and rhetoric and adopt concrete, measurable and time-bound action on issues affecting working people, farmers, women, workers, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities and marginalised communities across the ...
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Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India
An excerpt from Realising Rights: A Handbook of Welfare in India  In the 2000s, the character of the welfare regime began to change. From 2004 onwards, major social policies reflected a significant shift towards the language of rights (Chopra 2014). A series of rights-based laws, such as the Nat...
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September 16, 2026
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A Census in Question!
With the first phase of India’s long-delayed Census now completed, attention is shifting from the exercise itself to the questions surrounding it. The Census is far more than a population count, it is the foundation on which economic planning, welfare schemes, public spending and democrati...
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