Bihar government has slashed school festival holidays by 12 days this year, including the Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Teej, Guru Nanak Jayanti and shortened the Durga Puja break too. The BJP is calling it “appeasement”. But it is time states take another look and rationalise the bloated and unproductive holiday calendar.
Modi govt’s LPG subsidy a problematic precedent — extends help to those who don’t need it
Modi government’s LPG subsidy for all goes against its own 2015 Give It Up scheme. It also sets a problematic precedent by abandoning poverty-targeting subsidies and extending them to those who don’t need them. Hard to justify this approach of ‘Hum karein toh Rakhi gift, koi aur kare toh revdi’.
Muzaffarnagar Muslim boy was slapped six days ago. Centre, state, BJP are still silent
It’s been six days since a Muzaffarnagar Muslim boy was slapped in a UP classroom. The central and state governments and the BJP have not uttered even a word of condemnation. Police and administrative responses aren’t enough. A political response goes a long way in acting as a better deterrent.