Modi government

PLI scheme could add $520 billion to GDP in net five years, says report

Newsbred Staff - December 19, 2020

The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) launched by the Modi government to amplify the local manufacturing may add USD 520 billion to gross domestic product...

Farmers’ stir: Analysing the situation from two sides of the barricades; Who’s wrong?

Ashish Shukla - November 28, 2020

Farmers on foot, tractors, trucks have marched from Punjab towards Haryana and Delhi. Along the way, they have faced barricades, police resistance which morphed...

If India Burns (Part II): No longer a question now that Nadda has thrown down the gauntlet

Ashish Shukla - October 21, 2020

(This is the second part of “If India Burns”, a grim picture of coming days, a forewarning for all of our stakeholders: Majority, minority,...

Indian-Americans think before you vote: This man set our Space programme back by decades

Ashish Shukla - October 15, 2020

In the forthcoming US presidential elections, Democrat faces—Joe Biden and Kamala Harris—are oozing charm to woo the sizeable Indian-Americans, 1.9 million out of 4.16...

Sikhs, Hindus are fleeing en masse from Afghanistan; But anti-CAAers can’t see their plight

Newsbred Staff - September 28, 2020

The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protestors have accused the Indian state of discriminating against Muslims. But these synchronized protests have no answer why their...

If you knew where did this 5 Quintal go, you would solve the riddle of outcry on farmers

Ashish Shukla - September 24, 2020

My friend Veeresh Malik, who livens these pages with a life lived in real-situations, and who has lately been regaling us with his insightful...

Harsimrat’s resignation is nothing but a ‘gimmick’: Capt Amarinder Singh

Newsbred Staff - September 18, 2020

Harsimrat Kaur Badal has resigned from the Modi cabinet on the farmers’ bills but the Punjab chief minister and her rival Capt. Amarinder Singh...

FCRA licences of 4 Christian bodies suspended; Crackdown continues

Newsbred Staff - September 7, 2020

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has suspended the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licences of four Christian bodies this year. In effect, these...

Indian Express does a PTI on Chinese ambassador; why be lenient with one and punish the other?

Ashish Shukla - August 14, 2020

If Press Trust of India (PTI) can fall foul of Modi government for publishing an interview of Sun Weidong, Chinese ambassador to India, who...

Private Railways: Tell a thing or two to Modi detractors

Ashish Shukla - July 3, 2020

I am a little confused. My two ears have whispers which cancel each other out: One suggests that we are moving away from Liberalization;...

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