Upon a back-breaking increase in fuel prices on 15 July 2021, the Information and Broadcasting Minister declared, “due to the continuous rise in oil prices in the global market, the government had no choice but to increase oil prices.” 

The government has announced an increase in the price of electricity by Rs. 2.97 per unit from 1st October 2021. Allowing for quarterly tariff adjustment (QTA), effectively the tariff increase for residential consumers is about Rs. 8 paisa per unit, whilst the tariff for all other consumer categories will effectively go up by Rs. 1.36 per unit.

On 28 June 2021, Bloomberg reported that India has redirected at least 50,000 additional troops to its front with China, boosting troop presence there to 200,000, up by more than 40% from last year, in a historic shift in offensive military posture. So how did Modi do what was once thought unimaginable, since India occupied Kashmir in 1947, inflaming a front against Pakistan?

After a few days of commotion, which was denounced by the mouthpieces of the Pakistan’s rulers as a disrespect of democracy, an orderly series of speeches by the government and the opposition resumed, during the budgetary session of parliament.However, whether there is commotion or calm in the National Assembly, the current budget is nothing but a colonialist IMF budget, just as all previous budgets.