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Not Just Onions, Pulses And Rice Price Too Have Burnt A Hole In Aam Aadmi’s Pocket

Onion prices have been making Indians cry for over a month now. After March, prices have increased by over 400 per cent, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan in Lok Sabha told Lok Sabha in reply to a question. The average the retail price of onion on December 3, 2019, was recorded to be Rs 81.9 …

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Protests In Northeast Over CAB, Economic Slowdown + More Top News

Even as the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, that has been called ‘divisive’ and ‘unconstitutional’ by members of civil society and the intelligentsia, is being hotly debated and argued upon in the Upper House of the parliament, its ripples have sent the people on the streets in the northeastern flank of the country, where several reports of violence in protest against the bill have …

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‘Sex Maniac’ Kills Couple, Sexually Abuses Corpse And Then Rapes Their Minor Daughter In UP

Even as the Telangana rape and murder case has sent shockwaves across the country with protests happening in the national capital and other cities for justice, incidents of rape aren’t settling down. Over the past one week, the country has witnessed some dreadful incidents of rapes and murders reported with gory details. In yet another incident, a “sex maniac” and …

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Salaries In India May Rise By 9.2% In 2020 But Rising Prices Will Play A Spoiler For Most

At a time when economic slowdown seems to have impacted a large section of the Indian population, a new report on salary growth in the coming year instils some hope among the working class. But this optimism may get crippled again as continued inflation is set to play a spoiler.  In other words, employees in India are expected to see …

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Revisiting 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape' & Why Global Discourse On Rape Needs To Change

Thousands of Indians have taken to the streets as public anger is growing over the brutal gang-rape and murder that took place in Hyderabad.  From one MP calling for the perpetrators to be lynched to others calling for capital punishment and lifetime imprisonment, the discourse on rape and sexual assault in India has come to the point where a similar …

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Former Policeman, 3 Others Gangrape Minor Girl In Government Quarter In Odisha, 1 Arrested

Even as the country is outraging over the brutal Telangana rape and murder of a 27-year-old government veterinary doctor, crime against women continue unabated. On November 2, a young woman was allegedly gangraped by a former police constable along with his accomplices at a government quarter near Jhadeswari temple in Puri, Odisha. The incident took place when one of the …

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Employees In Auto Industry Stare At An Uncertain Future As Car Sales Go Down And Down

For a country that’s already been reeling under an economic down-slide and lack of new employment opportunities, slumping sales of cars and motorcycles have emerged as a major reason to worry. They are triggering massive job cuts in the auto sector but there’s little hope of a quick recovery.  There was a brief euphoria in the month of October, particularly …

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Nirmala Sitharaman Discusses Economy Situation In Parliament While Fellow MPs Take Power Nap

India’s economy is on a downward spiral and even our Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman admitted the same in Rajya Sabha. Sitharaman conceded the growth might have slowed down but the economy will never slip into recession. The Upper House of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, was engaged in a serious discussion on the current state of the Indian economic situation. What was …

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Cost Of Honesty: IAS Officer Ashok Khemka Transferred Yet Again, 53rd Transfer In 28 Years

IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been transferred yet again making this his 53rd transfer in 28 years of service. Reacting to his his latest posting, saying the “reward for honesty is humiliation”.  Haryana government on Wednesday issued transfer order to 14 IAS officers, including Khemka. “Phir tabadla (transferred again),” the 1991-batch officer tweeted. “Same thing again. Constitution Day was celebrated …

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BJP's Pragya Thakur Hails Mahatma Gandhi's Murderer Nathuram Godse As 'Deshbhakt' In Parliament

There seems to be a conscious effort by BJP’s controversial Member of Parliament, Pragya Thakur, to revere Nathuram Godse, the murderer of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi. She has said it on previous occasions, and this time she chose temple of Indian democracy, the Parliament house to repeat something that is nothing short of a hate slogan. A person …

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