*17 March 2018(Saturday)* 1.ऑस्ट्रेलिया को पूर्ण आसियान सदस्य बनाने के पक्ष में इंडोनेशिया • इंडोनेशिया के राष्ट्रपति जोको विदोदो ने शुक्रवार को संकेत दिए कि वह चाहते हैं कि ऑस्ट्रेलिया रक्षा, कारोबार और सुरक्षा के मामलों में बड़ी क्षेत्रीय भूमिका निभाए और आसियान का पूर्ण सदस्य बन...
विश्व उपभोक्ता अधिकार दिवस: 15 मार्च 2018 विश्व उपभोक्ता अधिकार दिवस हर वर्ष 15 मार्च को पूरी दुनिया में उपभोक्ताओं के अधिकारों के संरक्षण के प्रति एकजुटता प्रदर्शित करने के लिए मनाया जाता है। वर्ष 2018 के लिए थीम: मेकिंग डिजिटल मार्केट प्लेसेस फेयरर (डिजिटल बाजारों को ज्यादा पारदर्शी बनाना) इतिहास: सर्वप्रथम वर्ष 1983 में उपभोक्ता अधिकार...
Prabhat Patnaik February 23, 2018 Nirav Modi, and his uncle Mehul Choksi, are the latest additions to the list of the so-called “entrepreneurs of new India” who have looted public money and decamped with the loot. The Punjab National Bank, the second largest bank in the...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram February 14, 2018 Over the last few decades, people in the developing world have been rejecting the intellectual property (IP) regime as it has been increasingly imposed on them following the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) including its trade-related intellectual property...
Jayati Ghosh February 2, 2018 For those with short memories, let’s remind ourselves that Arun Jaitley has been promising “top priority to farmers” for a while now. Indeed, this government came to power in 2014 promising to double farmers’ incomes in five years. Four years later,...
Jayati Ghosh February 2, 2018 This government is especially good at optics, at managing public perceptions to persuade people that it is working for them, rather than doing so. So it is no surprise that Arun Jaitley’s pre-election Budget Speech went on about how much his...
Jayati Ghosh February 20, 2018 Forget the massive and overblown promises to farmers and on health insurance, which were not covered by any budgetary provisions. Ignore the supposed increases in rural development spending, which are all to be met through “extra-budgetary and non-budgetary sources”. Disregard the...
C.P. Chandrasekhar February 20, 2018 Billed as the last full budget of this second NDA government, Budget 2018 was not expected to surprise. The leadership of that government may be pleased with having played, during its nearly 4-year tenure, with programmes varying from “Make in India”...
Prabhat Patnaik February 21, 2018 What is happening in the U.S. economy provides an object lesson on the functioning of neo-liberal capitalism. Pre-first world war capitalism which had witnessed the long Victorian and Edwardian boom had relied on the colonial arrangement for the system’s dynamics. The...
12 March 2018 (Monday) 1.माओ के बाद चीन में अब जिनपिंग जीवनपर्यत राष्ट्रपति रहेंगे शी • चीन में एकदलीय राजनीति में सबसे बड़े बदलाव के तहत रबर स्टांप संसद ने ऐतिहासिक संविधान संशोधन को मंजूरी दे दी जिससे राष्ट्रपति शी जिनपिंग के दो बार के कार्यकाल की...