Tag: economy
CPI(M) Protests Across India on 20-26 August Against Modi Govt
On the call of the CPI(M) Central Committee, protests took place across the country between August 20 and August 26. The protests were held...
Kashmir lost Education, Health and Economy. What did India gain?
As Modi government covered up the failure of the abrogation of article 370 and article 35A and a year of complete lockdown in Jammu...
Kashmir: Post 370A Abrogation Economic Loss stand at Rs 40000 Cr
On August 5, 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status granted to the state of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of...
Bangalore: Street Vendors Go On Hunger Strike, Demand Income Compensation
As Bengaluru and other districts of Karnataka went on yet another lockdown as a measure to contain the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in the...
Coronavirus has brought the welfare state back, and it might be...
Governments across the developed world have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by making welfare states vastly more generous. Historical parallels suggest that this munificence...
Ashok Leyland fires 5800 workers without notice
Ashok Leyland, the country's second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturing company has suddenly fired 5,800 workers from the Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand.
The company fired 4,500 permanent...
The lions of “Make in India ” companies fires 15000 employees
The startup companies which were promoted as the lions of the “Make in India ” campaign have fired close to 15000 employees giving lockdown...
Unemployment : What Could Be Done But Would Not Be Done
It has been a recurring theme in the political economy. Its two great masters of the nineteenth century, Malthus and Ricardo, believed in the...
Modi Government Stimulus Package leaves much to be desired
It is hard to think of another crisis in recent memory that so thoroughly exposes multiple vulnerabilities of our society and economy and that...
Lockdown, agriculture and farmer distress
Gauri Lankesh News is doing a series on how lockdown is affecting the economy. Read here: Part1. We spoke to experts working in the...
