As the Lok Sabha election reached its last stage, the vitriol spread by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues reached the peak. Apart from bashing the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and asking votes by criticising his predecessors like Rajiv Gandhi, Modi has brought the elections and the standard of parliamentary politics to a historic low. However, … Read more
After a brief lull, the Modi regime is going to face large-scale mass discontent and parliamentary opposition in the coming days as Indian GDP growth rate is going to fall to 6.5 per cent for the Financial Year (FY) 2017-18, as per the recent data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. This … Read more
Demonetisation and GST roll-out hit the Indian trade and commerce, especially small and middle-scale traders, industrialists and the broad masses of workers and farmers adversely and created an economic catastrophe from which the Indian economy shows no sign of recovery even now. At a time when the economy is crisis-ridden, the workers and farmers are … Read more
Narendra Modi government announced a ₹10 trillion investment to revive the economy, out of which ₹7 trillion will be spent in building infrastructure, especially 83,677 km of roads and highways and ₹2.11 trillion to recapitalise the PSU banks. The road building will be done under a fanciful name of Bharat Mala and the PSU recapitalisation … Read more
There is a proverb in India that a thief’s voice is louder than that of the cop. Arun Jaitley is proving it correct by saying that the demonetisation exercise of the Modi government has sharply reduced terrorism in India. Following the historic behavioural pattern of RSS cadres, the finance minister, who is also a lawyer … Read more
Modinomics is the new school of economics to which the Bhakts, the cheerleaders of Narendra Modi-led Hindutva fascist regime, subscribes to and they hail it as a powerful weapon to get rid of all the woes of the poor and take India to the plane of development that Modi promised during his 2014 election campaign. … Read more
The cat is out of the bag; affirming the observations made by the critics, Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation exercise came out to be a futile one, as per the recent data released by the Reserve Bank of India, which says that nearly 99 percent of the demonetised currency notes of ₹1000 and ₹500 returned back … Read more
Narendra Modi wants to play all roles once and since the Uttar Pradesh assembly election is reaching the climax, his desperation to prove himself as an omnipotent and omnipresent leader of the nation-state has reached the peak. Without sparing a word on the worsening economic condition of the country, Narendra Modi attacked the economists who … Read more
PR Economy Desk (02/02/2017): The Union Budget 2017-18 presented by Arun Jaitley on 1st February 2017 was special due to three reasons: It became the first budget since the foundation of the Indian republic when the railway and general budgets were clubbed together into one The Union Budget 2017-18 is a slightly controlled budget because the … Read more
The Modi government’s decision to push through the demonetisation exercise was blamed on a nefarious nexus between the Finance Ministry and the US government, keen to push a cashless economic experiment in a ‘region’ to see the feasibility of reducing cash transactions in the economies of Asia-Africa-South America and provide the American big finance capital … Read more
During an election rally in Shahjahanpur of Western Uttar Pradesh, RSS strong man and BJP stalwart Amit Shah fired sexist salvo against the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for their strong opposition to Narendra Modi’s demonetisation exercise. Shah said during his speech -”Have you seen the … Read more
At the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the people of the country are voluntarily taking the pain to participate in the long queues in front of the ATMs and the banks due to the demonetisation of the currency notes of ₹500 and ₹1000, and the people have largely maintained peace … Read more
In a discussion with NDTV during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Power Minister Pijush Goyal reiterated that the entire cabinet remained in dark regarding the demonetisation drive of the Modi government and Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, kept the entire exercise secret and caught them in surprise by this decision. This is the official version … Read more
Army deployed at several toll tax booths and on important corners of West Bengal on 1st of December, including areas close to the state secretariat, which the Chief Minister called an attempt by the Modi government to bully the democratically elected government of the state for the reluctance of Mamata Banerjee to give any respite to … Read more
Narendra Modi’s war against black money just got better in November, when he arbitrarily declared the withdrawal of the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 from circulation and announced the replacement of both with new notes of Rs 500 and Rs 2000. The declaration made by Modi on 8 November, created a ruckus … Read more