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Jul 23, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 announced income tax relief for the middle class, a Rs.2 lakh crore outlay for job creation schemes over the next five years, and a spending splurge for States run by her party’s new coalition partners, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh and the Janata Dal (United) in Bihar, as she unveiled the Narendra Modi 3.0 government’s first Budget after the 2024 general election.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashutosh Sharma |Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
Upon assuming office as Deputy Chief Minister of BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh in December 2023, Vijay Sharma, who is also the Home Minister, extended an “unconditional offer” for peace talks with naxalites. While the BJP-led Central government is yet to endorse his offer, for Union Home Minister Amit Shah eradicating the naxalite problem in the next 2-3 years is a priority.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rishika Pardikar |Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
In a study published on June 17 in the journal Climate and Development, researchers with the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, and the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, presented a new framework they designed for modelling climate action that foregrounds equity.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
The Indian economy is on a strong wicket, despite geopolitical challenges, says the Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in the Parliament by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 22. The Survey, authored by Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran and his team, is an annual document presented by the government ahead of the Union Budget to review the state of the economy.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
In the end, it was his age that prevented Joe Biden from running for President again. On July 21, the US President announced he would not seek re-election in November. Biden will see out the rest of his term in office, but the Democrats will look for a new presidential candidate at their convention in August.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | T.K. Rajalakshmi |Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
The three new criminal laws that were passed by Parliament in 2023, and which came into effect on July 1 this year, have met with strong opposition from diverse sections.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
Dear Reader,George Ritzer is an American sociologist, professor, and author best known for his work on the concept of “McDonaldization”. Born in 1940, Ritzer has made significant contributions to the field of sociology, particularly in the areas of globalisation, consumption, and social theory.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashoka Mody |Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
In the recent general election, many voters gave their material interests priority over Hindu nationalism, delivering a shock to the ruling BJP. In doing so, they demolished the hype about “India on the move”, propagated by both international and domestic elites. The hype—built on exaggerated GDP growth numbers and detached-from-reality declarations about the end of poverty—faced its most brutal repudiation in Uttar Pradesh.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
In 2019, the BJP burst onto West Bengal’s political stage by winning 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats and securing over 40 per cent of the votes. With the ruling Trinamool Congress reeling under allegations of corruption and misrule, the saffron party seemed poised to take over power from Mamata Banerjee’s party in the Assembly election of 2021. Five years later, while the Trinamool continues to struggle with corruption, the BJP’s fortunes have taken a drastic turn for the worse.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Furqan Qamar |Vaishna Roy
Your gut is teeming with tiny single-celled parasites called Blastocystis. Gross, right? But a new study shows these gut parasites can be linked to a healthy diet. A study in the journal Cell has found that the presence of Blastocystis in the human gut could be linked with better health outcomes in a sample population from 32 different countries.
