Intending to replace 29 central labour laws, between 2019 and 2020 the central government rushed Four Labour Codes (FLC) through Parliament claiming that...
BySaurabh PrakashDecember 18, 2025The prospect of a change in government has encouraged the people to vent anger If Dinabandhu Mitra were alive today he could have...
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ByAmarendra KishoreOctober 10, 2009Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar or Sharad Pawar, as he is popularly known, is a politician for all seasons. Wily, pragmatic and never one to...
ByTR RAMACHANDRANSeptember 9, 2009When Mayawati became the first Dalit woman to be Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, many people naturally assumed that her ascendancy would prove...
ByTara PatkarJuly 9, 2009UP touches the nadir of development but its CM’s personal and political fortunes soar The fact that the country’s 15th general election is...
ByTara PatkarMay 5, 2009Or, how Rs 430 crore earmarked for Commonwealth Games coverage has spawned an unholy nexus Prasar Bharati’s affairs had been on the simmer...
ByAnil TyagiMarch 3, 2009Mayawati’s changes in police system add to IPS demoralization After the Nithari murders of children and the uncovering of Azamgarh’s link with terrorism...
ByTara PatkarMarch 3, 2009Rise, fall,…of a supercrat Like Icarus of yore, Shashank Shekhar Singh, the former pilot who took UP Chief Minister Mayawati’s Sarvajan Samaj programme...
ByTara PatkarFebruary 2, 2009Despite Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati thundering, “The transfer business has come to an end” soon after assuming office on May 13 last...
ByTeamJune 7, 2008