As it is, no one really believes that at 7 percent growth there should be such an abysmal fall in job creation and consequent rise in unemployment
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NOVEMBER 2016
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Just what does Karan Johar take his audience to be, lumping it with something as inane as this film?
Sonali Ghosh Sen Delhi
Big companies break unions apart because they fight for dignity, rights and safety for the mazdoor. They use draconian policies and enlist the help of the State apparatus to quell protest; yet the protesting workers soldier on braving all sorts of adversities
Abeer Kapoor Delhi
Every month, a million young Indians become ready to join the industrial workforce. Who can generate jobs for them?
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
Once looked upon as the next big MSME hub, Bawana has become an area where few businessmen want to set up shop
Shibu Kumar Tripathi Delhi
In a conversation with Hardnews, the Venezuelan ambassador, Augusto Montiel, talks about the steep challenges that the South American nation faces
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
In an exclusive interview with Hardnews, Swaraj India Party founder Prashant Bhushan talks about his party, his disenchantment with Arvind Kejriwal and much else
Abeer Kapoor Delhi
In 21st-century India, the shit has reached critical mass and is spinning out of control as it continues to splatter, raising a stink
Ratna Raman Delhi
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At the site of the encounter in Bhopal where eight alleged SIMI terrorists were killed in cold blood, there were scores of people with smartphones recording the grisly happenings. The images, accompanied by the frenetic voices, establish to ordinary senses the crime of a fake encounter or extra-judicial killings. Interestingly, there was not just one but different videos shot from all kinds of angles. And all of them told the same story. Why does it not worry the perpetrators – the police – that for this crime they could be punished?
Genetically modified sarson, developed by Delhi University scientists, is not quite the safe, high-yield manna for farmers the government is making it out to be
Kavita Kuruganti Delhi
In a freewheeling interview with Hardnews, AK Padmanabhan, President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, talks about the growing unemployment in India, the drop in manufacturing, the challenges that labour in India is facing
Abeer Kapoor Delhi
It’s truly upsetting that the hyper-nationalist BJP government has asked China to make Sardar Patel’s statue. Some of us have gone into a state of shock. This definitely weakens its ‘Make in India’ slogan and makes the roaring lion logo look like a mewling kitten stuck on a tree-top. Oh, and I’m also going to make sure that I never stand next to that statue when it is installed. No way! I’ve seen how little bits and pieces of my ‘Made in China’ laptop fall off whenever it goes through airport security scanners. Shudder.
Since Europe inspires us in so many different ways, it is only fair that we also take lessons from mistakes made in the past on the continent.
After the Nazi Party’s electoral victory in 1932, Germany's democracy, writes Ian Kershaw, leading historian of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, in a foreword to George Sylvester Viereck’s interview with Hitler published in the same year in a series titled Great Interviews of the 20th Century, that Germany's democracy that year entered its terminal phase.
Neither the PM, shedding false tears over the ‘triple talaq issue’, nor the AIMPLB has any moral right to speak for Indian Muslim women, who are a ‘double minority’
Sanober Umar Delhi