-TheWire.in Significant downward revision in GDP growth during Q1 and Q2 of FY19 has been one of the key reasons for boosting GDP growth in the corresponding quarters of FY'20. India’s gross domestic product (GDP) estimation by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has been a story of upward and downward revisions in the last year. While the GDP for Q3-FY’20 is estimated at 4.7%, its slowest pace in almost seven years, what is...

-The Financial Express Focussing on women’s education, Access to sanitation & potable water, diet rich in proteinaceous foods and biofortification of grains can curb malnutrition President Donald Trump applauded India’s achievements in his address at the crowded Motera stadium. These ranged from religious freedom to reducing poverty to the giant emerging economy. This should have made every Indian feel proud, except that only in the next three days, riots in Delhi made...

-IndiaToday.in Restoring baolis can help combat the Capital’s water problem, as well as conserve an age-old engineering marvel They say you cannot walk more than a few hundred yards in Delhi without colliding with history. Along with the hundreds of monuments lining up the national capital are some home-grown marvels of indigenous engineering. These stepwells, or baolis, commissioned by the erstwhile rulers of Dilli not just helped propagate the message of water...

-Economic and Political Weekly Though the 16-point action plan for agriculture laid down in the 2020 Union Budget continues prioritising subsidies and safety nets over agricultural investments, it does not make any fundamental improvements in the allocations towards these heads. Please click here to access the article. ...

-Economic and Political Weekly The Union Budget of 2020 is conspicuous by its non-recognition of the ongoing and widely discussed slowdown of the economy, let alone its impact on the different sections of the people. Given the negative growth in employment and consumption in the rural economy, the budget seems like a cruel joke on the plight of the poor, in general, and women, in particular. Instead of measures for boosting...