| No Images? Click here  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is in the eye of a Twitter storm, AGAIN. After the ban on e-cigarettes was announced, many were left confused. While Sitharaman said this was to control tobacco use in India, she did not address the elephant in the room. Meanwhile, heartbreaking stories continue to come from Kashmir. Journalist Qazi Shibli, who was summoned unofficially by the police in Anantnag, went missing a few days before the government scrapped Section 370. Nikhila Henry writes that for traumatised Kashmiris, the arbitrary arrests and disappearances are bringing back memories of the turbulent 1990s. And as the government blames millennials for the poor state of the economy, Kerala Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac told Huffpost India's Akshay Deshmane that only a fiscal stimulus implemented by both the state and the Centre can help India overcome its economic slowdown. there was no mention of whether the government was contemplating banning normal cigarettes, bidis and chewable tobacco in India. According to a 2018 factsheet by the World Health Organisation, tobacco kills more than 1 million people a year in India, which is the world’s second largest consumer of the product.  Kerala Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac said he is concerned that “all sorts of solutions are put forward other than a fiscal stimulus by the government” to address the current economic slowdown. The veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, who is also a trained economist, said a fiscal stimulus was “something India successfully did in 2010 and got out of recession.”  New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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