Strange that Court should fault the jailed CM for non availability of books. What are the highly well paid officers doing ? By this logic shld PM be responsible for the shortage of TB or HIV drugs ? Last year HIV patients had to go on dharna for 3 months to get their drugs .

The Congress candidate in Indore who withdrew his nomination should not only be allowed to join the opposing party but be barred from further elections. Unless EC wakes up and puts some deterrence like this, we will have parties 400 par without any election!

Since we have a very scared EC, SC needs to take suo moto action& stop this elected unopposed trend that the BJP has started - 1st Surat, now Indore making elections &democracy a joke. All such unopposed seats must be notified and referendum beheld. Punitive measures reqd.

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It's v clear that the EC had not applied their mind to weather conditions while finalizing this tortuous schedule....it's impossible for elderly to be standing in these long queues in scorching heat. Time a law is passed fixing schedules...example Evey March in days or so.

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In our preoccupation with India's elections we are not seeing the Vietnam moment emerging in the US as students in several campuses are agitating to stop Israeli aggression on Gaza. Where are our students ? Israel's cruelty has no parallel and yet we are quiet?

Even as the EC is taking measures to ensure a smooth poll, care must be taken to ensure that uniformed police do not enter the polling area...they must adhere to the rules and not interfere with the process.

Fail to understand this outrage about the inheritance tax -a useful means of shifting money from the 0.5 pc to the rest. This one time tax is 55pc in US , 40pc in UK etc..entailing huge social benefits. It's progressive. Taxation in India is regressive. Need economists to advise.

14/ In India, where generations of rich and super-rich are used to enjoying 'baap ka maal' for free, these facts might come as a shock. And it is indeed this shock that is emerging now with some anger against a suggestion!

12/ There are also clear rejections in the literature of arguments that an inheritance tax would lead to a tax on capital. It would not be, because a shift of capital from one person to the state or another person would lead to no diminution of the national capital as a whole.

8/ The point, clearly, was that what you 'inherited' was not what you 'earned' in your lifetime. The aim of inheritance tax is not just the redistribution of wealth; it also promotes inter-generational competition and innovation. It incentivises heirs to work more and better.

6/ Inheritance taxes strengthen horizontal equity. People pay similar taxes irrespective of whether their assets come from earnings or inheritance. It also strengthens vertical equity. Those with more ability to pay taxes pay more. Thus, it weakens the buildup of dynastic wealth.

5/ Why is there an inheritance tax? It is broadly aimed at redistributing wealth across households as well as to nudge economic behaviours of the wealthy. Inherited wealth diminishes equality of opportunity, and leads to persistence of wealth inequalities across generations.

My rajasthani friend tells me that in Banswara where PM Modi made the now famous speech there are no Muslims and the people so poor that have no mangalsutras. Wonder what wealth of theirs that will be taken away to give others 🤔😲

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