View Articles

On December 8, 2024, the European Union (EU) implemented the revised product liability directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2853). This brings in a significant change in product liability rules. This update expands on the concepts outlined by the 1985 guideline. Nonetheless, it amends them to handle the difficulties of developing technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), software and the Internet of Things (IoT).

The Union Ministry of Agriculture recently circulated a new draft for a policy framework concerning agricultural marketing. Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, additional secretary in the ministry, proposed the draft to revamp the existing framework. According to the government, the proposed universal tax on agricultural produce will increase farmers’ incomes. The committee has suggested replacing the state-supported market yards, laws on bulk storage, and regulations governing direct purchases by large private entities with a new framework for agricultural marketing mechanisms. A committee comprising state agricultural ministers, similar to the empowered GST committee, will be established to facilitate the direct collection of taxes from the Union government.

It is a disease called 'Rahulphobia', which afflicts the Gujarat duo. The phobia is a proven strategy to defame Rahul Gandhi and possibly send him to jail. On Thursday, the Makar Dwar of Parliament saw violent scenes, unprecedented in the history of parliamentary democracy in India.

Can the Congress be revived in Uttar Pradesh to challenge BJP in 2027? This is the question agitating senior leaders and Congress workers. Especially after the manner in which INDIA partner Samajwadi Party performed in the recent by-elections for nine seats. Senior Congress leaders and Congress workers are annoyed with the results of the bypolls. Congress leaders and Congress workers had kept a distance from Samajwadi Party candidates which also contributed to the humiliating defeat of SP candidates. The Samajwadi Party could win only two seats of the nine seats it contested.

I saw a video on YouTube in which the Supreme Court was scolding a young lawyer for having sought information about a municipal body by inspection. The court was asking him why he wanted this information and telling him not to use the right to information (RTI) since he was an officer of the court.

Just a day before the scheduled end of the winter session of the Parliament of India, the confrontation between the ruling NDA and the Opposition INDIA bloc turned physical at its entrance, and several MPs were injured. It is something different from the issue-based confrontations within both the Houses of Parliament, which is nothing but a symptom of a democratic breakdown. Functional relationship between the ruling establishment and the opposition seems to have broken which prevented smooth functioning of the parliament.

Two days after the BJP leaders waxed eloquent about protecting the Constitution in the debate in the Lok Sabha to mark the 75th anniversary of the framing of the Constitution, the Modi government has introduced a Constitution Amendment Bill, which seeks to damage the Constitution and the federal structure within it.

In 2025, in December, Communist Party of India completes a glorious century of a revolutionary past. It was a continual process, involving every single moment, in past, in present and also in future. Through prolonged popular struggles, it has been moving on, with power, without power. The history of communist movement also evolves, in stages, among people, struggling against the exploitative forces, to build a new society based on scientific principles.

When push comes to shove, there's no beating LoP in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, the only muscular MP in Parliament who can stand up to the ‘56” ki Chaati’ though there are pictures of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju flexing his muscles in a gym. But Rahul Gandhi’s push can be deadly to those in the way.

Within the span of this week, we have got two completely different and contrasting views of the Indian economy — one from the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and the other from the leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi. Both could not be true at the same time; both could be false. They look like containing fragments of the truth.