This is the season of giving and it simply doesn't matter if you don't have a real plan. Now the Communist Party of India (Marxist) government in Kerala has said it would offer farmers a minimum support price that is 50 per cent above the cost of production, Rs 18,000 in minimum wages, and Rs 6,000 as minimum welfare pension. Thomas Isaac, Kerala finance minister, said the package his party was proposing was better than the income support scheme of the Congress because the CPI (M) did have a strategy for resource mobilisation. And that includes raising taxes on the rich and on corporate profits, restoring the wealth tax for the super-rich, the introduction of the inheritance tax and restoring the long-term capital gains tax.
If a topic ignites Twitter, social media teams of various police units in the country barely let it go unutilised. The Kolkata Police (KP) was quick to lap up the hotly debated 'Mankad' controversy from this week’s Indian Premier League match between Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab in Jaipur. Drawing an analogy between Jos Buttler's dismissal in that match — who was controversially run out by the opposition captain Ravichandran Ashwin — and traffic violation, KP put a screenshot of the dismissal on Twitter along with a photo that showed a car crossing the stop line at a traffic signal. The message in Bangla read: "Crease or road, you will regret if you cross the line." This brought back memories of the Jaipur Police using the infamous no-ball that Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah had bowled in the 2017 Champions Trophy final to give a similar message. Bumrah had not taken it kindly and had expressed his displeasure on Twitter. Wonder if Ashwin, usually an active and chirpy social media user, has taken note of the KP post.
