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140324 fast-tracked citizenship if they fled religious persecution

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020324 India’s economy grows at its fastest pace in six quarters
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For a decade, earnings of regular salaried & self-employed Indians have been declining: ILO Down to Earth

India’s Income Inequality Is Now Worse Than Under British Rule, New Report Says TIME

Indian Economy Is Rigged Under Plutocratic Influence. What About Elections? The Wire

010424 Indians may already be experiencing temperatures close to limits of human survivability without even being aware Down to Earth : The basic criteria for IMD to declare a heatwave is when the temperature of a place crosses 40 degrees Celsius (°C) in the plains, 37°C in the coastal areas and 30°C in the hills. These temperature values are the thresholds set by IMD for the declaration of heatwaves in India. Apart from this, the temperature of a particular day has to be above normal by at least 4.5°C for two consecutive days for a heatwave to be declared."

"010424 Índia Elections: running the government from inside the jail!?!?

"The Constitution does not expressly bar anyone from running the government from inside the jail, but talking of Constitutional morality stops it. Democracy demands that the person, who has been elected by the public, be outside (the jail) with the public. Here (Delhi), people would not be having any access to the CM . Advocate Ashwani Dubey"

 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/newsblogs/latest-news-live-updates-april-1-pm-modi-arvind-kejriwal-baltimore-bridge-easter-mukhtar-ansari-israel-hamas-war-russia-ukraine-war-india/liveblog/108928170.cms#:~:text=22%20PM%20IST%2C-,01%20April%202024,%2D%20Advocate%20Ashwani%20Dubey,-08%3A52%3A32

010424:  massive rally criticized Modi’s government 

"NEW DELHI (AP) — An alliance of India’s opposition parties launched its election campaign with a massive rally Sunday that criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of stifling opponents and undermining democracy ahead of a national election next month.

The “Save Democracy” rally in New Delhi was the first major show of strength by the opposition bloc INDIA. Modi on Sunday also launched a formal campaign for the election to be held over six weeks starting April 19.

Opposition leaders spoke to the flag-waving crowd and criticized Modi’s government for arresting several of their colleagues, including New Delhi’s top elected official Arvind Kejriwal on March 21. The leaders called the arrests undemocratic and accused Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, of using federal agencies to undermine the opposition.

Kejriwal was arrested by the federal Enforcement Directorate on charges that his party and state ministers had accepted 1 billion rupees ($12 million) in bribes from liquor contractors nearly two years ago. The Aam Aadmi Party, or Common Man’s Party, denied the accusations and said that Kejriwal would remain as New Delhi’s chief minister while the court decides on the next step"

 https://apnews.com/article/india-election-opposition-modi-kejriwal-396a85e3fc4e4ed43018436b690b0fe0#:~:text=NEW%20DELHI%20(AP,the%20next%20step

140324 fast-tracked citizenship if they fled religious persecution

Indias Farmer's protests
Political Economy
020324 India’s economy grows at its fastest pace in six quarters

India's Election 
180324 Electoral Bonds Blow Giant Holes in Modi’s Anti-Corruption Plank The Wire

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s big claim that no corruption charge has ever tarnished his government lies in tatters after the Supreme Court declared the electoral bonds scheme ‘illegal’ and ‘unconstitutional’.

The anti-corruption plank is dramatically slipping from under Modi’s feet as revelations about the real nature of anonymous contributions to political parties via electoral bonds, with the BJP being the largest beneficiary, are coming thick and fast.

Every official claim made before the launch of the murky scheme in 2017 stands totally discredited. Remember, the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley boasted that established Indian corporates wanted this scheme to bring in white money into the electoral system and that they just wanted their identities protected.

This argument becomes laughable on a cursory scrutiny of the list which has largely small unknown companies, many acting as fronts of big corporates, pumping 10 to 100 times their net profit via electoral bonds.

Why would a company want to be so generous as to give 100 times its profits to a political party?

140324: regulate AI ahead of India's national elections
020324 In election boost for Modi Channel News Asia

Indias Farmer's protests

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India’s economy grows at its fastest pace in six quarters in election boost for Modi Channel News Asia

... Modi has sharply raised government spending on infrastructure and offered incentives to boost the manufacturing of phones, electronics, drones and semiconductors to help India compete with the likes of Vietnam and Thailand.

The manufacturing sector, which for the past decade has accounted for 17 per cent of Asia's third-largest economy, expanded 11.6 per cent year-on-year in the December quarter, while investment growth was above 10 per cent for the second consecutive quarter, and the construction sector grew by more than 9 per cent.