-Newsclick.in More than 50% of Indians of legal working age don’t want a job due to the lack of suitable employment: CMIE More than 50% of the 90 crore Indians of legal working age, particularly women, don’t want a job due to increasing frustration of not finding the right kind of employment. The shocking data was reported by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a private research firm in Mumbai. Between 2017...
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Why wheat prices are skyrocketing despite bumper stocks -Shwweta Punj
-IndiaToday.in Rising international prices of wheat and fuel are pushing wheat prices up at home. There is also a demand for India to export wheat India’s CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation rose to a 17-month high of 6.95 per cent in March 2022, exceeding the Reserve Bank of India’s inflation target for three consecutive months. The prices of wheat and wheat products in the country have gone up by 15-20 per cent...
More »Waging war for sustenance -Aunindyo Chakravarty
-The Tribune Disruption in supplies due to Ukraine crisis may create food shortage, price distortions The war in Ukraine has become a war on the world’s poor. Russia and Ukraine, together, accounted for a quarter of the world’s wheat exports, one-sixth of global corn exports, nearly a third of barley and three-fourths of the export of sunflower oil. American sanctions on Russia mean it cannot sell its extra wheat in the global...
More »As communal tensions rise in Karnataka, IT firms ‘reach out’ to investment-seeking Tamil Nadu -Revathi Krishnan
-ThePrint.in TN Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan also says IT companies showing ‘great interest’ in state, but doesn't say where from. His govt to soon host several investor events abroad. New Delhi: In the midst of a series of developments that have led to communal polarisation in Karnataka, many information technology (IT) firms based out of Bengaluru have reached out to the Tamil Nadu government, seeking to shift their businesses, ThePrint has learnt. Sources...
More »Sri Lanka Faces Food Crisis – No, It’s Not Due to Organic Farming -Bahar Dutt
-TheQuint.com A new IPCC report wants the world to decarbonise. Sri Lanka was doing just that, albeit with shoddy planning. Yet another IPCC report is out that warns of dire consequences if the world doesn’t course-correct and pursue a low-carbon pathway. This means drastically cutting our dependence on fossil fuels, among a string of other hard-hitting measures. One country did try that by announcing a ban on chemical-based farming and its decision...
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