-The Indian Express Yavatmal, known to be the suicide capital of Vidarbha, has also shown a drop from last year’s 272 to 225 this year. The district had registered 386 suicides in 2015, an all time record for any district. Nagpur: Even as the ruling and Opposition parties slug it out in the state legislative Assembly, and outside, over farmers’ suicide, government statistics have shown a trend of decreasing numbers for the...
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WTO Summit: What is the biggest takeaway for India; find out here -Biswajit Dhar
-The Financial Express Yet another WTO Ministerial Conference has ended with the 164 members of the organisation failing to agree on how to take the agenda of the organisation forward. At the end of the 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11), there should be no doubt that the WTO has lost its way. Trade ministers have failed to deliver a work programme for the WTO for the second time in a row—a first...
More »Spending on agri R&D alleviates poverty substantially: Study -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line This brings higher returns; govt must spend more on R&D, roads: ICRIER paper New Delhi: Spending on agricultural research and development, including extension services, is at least 10 times more effective in reducing poverty than spending on fertiliser or power subsidies, an ongoing study has shown. Spending ?10 lakh on agricultural R&D can help lift 328 people out of poverty, whereas allocating the same for fertiliser or power subsidies...
More »Food security decision at WTO important: Here is the reason why -TS Vishwanath
-The Financial Express There has been an ongoing debate over India’s stand at the WTO Ministerial Conference on the issue of public stockholding for food security purposes, including in this newspaper. There have been strong arguments on whether India’s stand is correct in the context of the subsidy phase out, in various sectors that the Modi government has been following over the past couple of years. But when this issue is...
More »A job crisis, in figures -Radhicka Kapoor
-The Indian Express Multiple data sets confirm sluggish pace of employment creation. Paucity of data can no longer be an excuse for the lack of debate. Jobs are an integral part of India’s political narrative today. This is unsurprising because the NDA came to power on the promise of creating a large number of jobs for India’s rapidly rising work force. However, much of the debate on employment performance over the last...
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