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Budget 2013-14 with its Fiscal Fetish

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Newsclick Production, March 7, 2013

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Newsclick discusses with economist Surajit Mazumdar the Union Budget 2013-14 and other related aspects.

Chalo Dilli! Pilgrimage Against Neoliberalism

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Vijay Prashad, February 26, 2013

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Delhi.

Early this morning, on the busy bylanes of Zamrudpur (Delhi), I passed a young girl being taken to school on a cycle-rickshaw.

India's New Science & Technology Policy

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Newsclick Production, January 12, 2013

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PM Manmohan Singh has announced a new S&T and Innovation Policy with ambitious goals and a "new paradigm" to synergize global competitiveness and developmental challenges. But critics say the new STI Policy does not address ground realities, institutional weaknesses and structural problems in Indian science, and does not indicate how the chronic gap between goals and achievement will be bridged.

 

New Science, Technology & Innovation Policy

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D. Raghunandan, Newsclick, January 10, 2013

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Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh last week unveiled a new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (henceforth STI for short) at the centenary-year Indian Science Congress in Kolkata.

The Other Half of the Coal Loot – Looting through the Power Market

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Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, September 13, 2012

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There is a story doing the rounds that when a Minister went up to Manmohan Singh complaining about “primitive accumulation of capital” with respect to a huge real estate scam, the PM asked him what was wrong with primitive accumulation, apart from the word primitive?

A Foreign Hand in Kudankulam or a Failure of Governance?

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Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, March 1, 2012

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The Prime Minrster's statement that the Kudankulam stir was due to a few foreign funded NGO's has been followed by the Home Ministry giving notice to 4 NGO's under FCRA and freezing their bank accounts.

Back-door Undermining of Democracy Congress Style

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Seema Mustafa, Newsclick, Feb. 27, 2012

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It is amazing how the Congress and its government are always looking for loopholes to get through anti-democratic measures.
 

A Toothless Nuclear Safety Authority

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Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, Jan. 12, 2012

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Last September, the UPA Government introduced the Nuclear Regulatory Authority Bill in the Lok Sabha and is currently before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology.

UPA: A Rudderless Ship

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Seema Mustafa, Newsclick, Dec. 16, 2011

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The year is drawing to a close, and so it seems is meaningful government activity. The state of flux has engulfed the entire UPA government that appears totally adrift. It is as if no one is charge, with the Ministers pulling in different directions and Industry threatening to pull out investments for safer bets abroad.
 
 

AFSPA Withdrawal: A Real Controversy or Bailing Out Omar?

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Seema Mustafa, Newsclick, Nov. 5, 2011

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Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah says he wants the Armed Forces Powers Act revoked in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir.

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