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किसान आ रहे हैं | The Farmers are here Nov 28, 2023 While withdrawing the agricultural laws, Prime Minister Modi had said that his penance would be lacking. Two years after withdrawing the law, he did penance for the farmers. You might also be thinking that the movement is over, the talk of farmers is over, but it does not mean that farmers are not talking about their movement. Everyone had assumed that the Kisan movement was over, but the gathering of farmers in large numbers in Chandigarh on the third anniversary of the movement shows that they have not forgotten their demands nor their passion. Three years ago, more than 700 farmers lost their lives, but they stood on their front lines. At last the government had to retreat. Of course the public can forget the government but the farmers remember everything that happened then.

राफेल की गुप्त रिपोर्ट लीक , कोर्ट में सच छिपाए मोदी ? Rafale's secret report leaked  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7oCRnVrLs

The Gupta Papers https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/gupta-papers-rafale-deal-agusta-westland-sushen-gupta How the Modi government is covering up two decades of defence corruption to save the Rafale deal Nileena MS 02 November 2023 The Italian police had been zeroing in on them in its investigation of bribery allegations in the Indian government’s 2010 purchase of 12 helicopters—worth Rs 3,727 crore—from AgustaWestland, a subsidiary of the state-controlled defence company Finmeccanica, now called Leonardo... a conversation, which was secretly recorded by the Italian police, indicated that Haschke and Gerosa had helped route payments from AgustaWestland, through a string of bogus consultancy contracts, to senior members of the Indian government and armed forces in order to influence the procurement of the helicopters.

The hidden story of how Ajit Doval and the Modi cabinet undermined Indian interests in the Rafale deal  https://caravanmagazine.in/government/hidden-story-doval-modi-cabinet-undermined-india-interests-rafale 16 December 2018

Why electricity tariff is going up? Who is the beneficiary?   https://www.cenfa.org/why-electricity-tariff-is-going-up-who-is-the-beneficiary/   The Centre, in its over-exuberance to privatise coal mining, put many greenfield coal blocks for auction to private companies, which in turn, apart from not having enough ability to develop coal, already stand heavily indebted to PSU financial institutions and are driven once again to borrow from them.

Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Public Services (PCPS) in its Statement dated June 2nd 2022, attributed the coal shortage entirely on account of mismanagement of coal supplies on the part of the Central government. “Having created such a situation, instead of owning responsibility for it and offering to share the cost burden, it is unfortunate that the Centre should wash its hands off and transfer the resulting liability to the States”

The Union Ministry of Power issued several directives to the State power utilities to mandatorily import coal, 4 % by weight failing which the state would also lose entitlement to coal supplied by Coal India and other Indian sources. At the same time, there was no notice given to the states to prepare for the import of coal.

Writes Thomas Franco in #RandomReflections this week!