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Jan 27, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Neeraj Jain |Kunal pandey
VA Vaish Associates Advocates More Established in 1971, Vaish Associates, Advocates is one of the best-known full-service law firms in India. Since its inception, it continues to serve a diverse clientele, including domestic and overseas corporations, multinational companies and individuals. Presently, the Firm has its operations in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ben McGrath |Pranjal Pandey |Dae-Han Song |Neeraj Jain
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol yesterday launched what was tantamount to a military coup. On national television at about 10.25 p.m., he announced a martial law decree, banning strikes, protests and all political activity and imposed blanket censorship. After facing immediate protests and opposition in the National Assembly, Yoon announced around 4:30 a.m. today that he would lift martial law and that troops dispatched to enforce the decree had been withdrawn.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neeraj Jain |Ben McGrath |Khairi Janbek |Suresh Khairnar
The mindboggling concessions given to the super-rich discussed in the previous article of this budget series have led to a massive increase in their wealth. This article presents some estimates of the wealth of our super-rich, which has made India one of the most unequal countries in the world. The mindboggling concessions given to the super-rich discussed in the previous article of this budget series have led to a massive increase in their wealth.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neeraj Jain |Vikas Meshram |Phil Pasquini |Binoy Kampmark
The Government of India’s social sector expenditures are among the lowest in the world. The government claims that India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Even if there is some exaggeration in this, can’t the government raise its social sector expenditures to the level of countries at a similar level of development?
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neeraj Jain |Bhabani Nayak |Hiren Gohain |Mohd Khan
In the 1970s, the government launched the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP), to ensure the flow of targeted funds from the Central Ministries towards the development of the Dalits and Adivasis. An assessment of how these allocations have fared under the Modi Government. Also a review of the budget allocation for the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Peoples’ Commission |Vidyadhar Date |Neeraj Jain |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The US District Court (Eastern District Court of New York)’s recent indictment of several Indian companies, including Adani Green, part of the the Adani conglomerate and the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a CPSE, raises disturbing concerns not only about large-scale corporate corruption that evidently prevails in India and the USA but also about how fraudulent policies adopted by the Union Ministry of Power at the instance of favoured business conglomerates have defrauded...
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |Neeraj Jain |Sandeep Banerjee |Bharat Dogra
To Shri T V Somanathan Cabinet Secretary Dear Shri Somanathan, I have come across an pressure release issued by the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) of the USA (https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-181) saying that “ SEC Charges Three Senior Executives in Two Actions Alleging Massive Bribery Scheme Involving Indian Energy Companies Adani Green and Azure Power……Adani Green’s note offering raised $175 million from U.S. investors while bribery scheme was in progress……..The...
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Manas Jena |Andre Damon |Neeraj Jain |Rejaz M Sydeek
ToShri V L Kantha RaoUnion Secretary (Mines)Dear Shri Kantha Rao,Please refer to my letter of 16th November 2024 pointing out that allotment of the Dagocha gold mine to HZL, a subsidiary of the Vedanta Group in Udaipur District in Rajasthan violated two Central legislations, namely, PESA & FRAS, that protect the interests of tribals, since the area where the mine is located lies within a Scheduled Area.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neeraj Jain |Rejaz M Sydeek |Matthew Hoh |Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The Union Finance Minister declared in her July Budget speech, “For promoting women-led development, the budget carries an allocation of more than Rs 3 lakh crore for schemes benefiting women and girls.” Is this true? We discuss the allocations made for benefiting women in this article. In her 2024–25 Interim Budget speech delivered on February 1, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked of giving “Momentum for Nari Shakti”.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vanaja Jasphine |Andre Damon |Chris Lombardi |Neeraj Jain
Support democratic and peaceful movements for safeguarding ecology in J&K and the entire Himalayan region13th Nov, 2024: More than 250 activists from different parts of India and diverse organizations signed on to a statement initiated by the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), strongly condemning the arbitrary detention of 6 social and environmental activists in Jammu & Kashmir, under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
