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News Reports

Despite Congress promises, Rajasthan farmers unlikely to get waiver certificate till after 2019 elections: Report

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The report suggests that there is no clear timeline yet on how to proceed regarding the loan-waiver scheme and it will take a lot more time than expected to distribute loan waiver certificates to the farmers.

Economy and Finance

Facts, No Fiction: Recent farm loan waiver prove that Congress hasn’t learnt from its past mistakes that drove fiscal deficit up

Karan - 22 December, 2018

Populist policies like farm loan waiver of the Congress indicate two things; unwillingness to learn from past economic mistakes and the lack of a sound policy agenda to resolve some of the long-standing issues of Indian farmers.

News Reports

Days after Congress govt in MP ‘waives off’ loans, farmer commits suicide because he wasn’t eligible

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The family of the deceased farmer allege that he ended his life as he was not entitled to the farm loan waive-off promised by the newly elected Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

From secularism to social justice, every ‘liberal’ principle in India is sacrificed at the feet of the Congress Party

Abhishek Banerjee - 22 December, 2018

This is only the latest reason to conclude that every purported liberal principle in India lies stretched out at the feet of the Congress Party.

The Curious case of Justice Ranganath Misra who gave clean chit to Congress for 1984 Sikh massacre

K Bhattacharjee - 22 December, 2018

Ranganath Misra, the uncle of former CJI Dipak Misra, went on to become a Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress party between 1998-2004, after his report on the 1984 Sikh genocide, exonerating Congress

News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: IAS officer transferred within hours of being threatened by Congress MLA

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

Kalavati Bhuria has been elected as the MLA for the first time from Jobat of Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh.

Crime

1995 Tandoor Murder Case: Delhi HC orders release of convict Sushil Sharma

OpIndia Staff - 21 December, 2018

Sushil Sharma, a Congress youth leader and former MLA had killed her wife Naina Sahni, a fellow Congress worker had killed his wife and later had cut the body into pieces and burnt it inside a 'tandoor'.