The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...
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India refutes allegations on ‘weakening’ Glasgow climate pact -Jacob Koshy and Suhasini Haidar
-The Hindu “Merely read out a ‘consensus’ statement on the final Day of the COP conference’ Rebutting allegations that it had weakened the Glasgow climate pact by having the final text of the agreement read that coal would be “phased down” instead of “phased out,” Indian officials said it had merely read out a ‘consensus’ statement agreed to by all countries on the final Day of the COP conference. India, the U.S., and...
More »Why Punjab’s short-duration paddy varieties have not solved stubble burning -Vivek Mishra
-Down to Earth Promoted by the government, short-duration varieties now dominate Punjab’s paddy landscape and allow farmers enough time to clear the field without setting them on fire. Why then are straw burning incidents still on the rise? Gursimran is somewhat dejected as he oversees a combined harvesting machine working his paddy fields. “Though the yield is better than what it has been in the past two years, it is still not...
More »Yet Another Young RTI Activist Brutally Murdered; A Price for Truth? -Vinita Deshmukh
-MoneyLife.in Barely two months back, Right to Information (RTI) activist Bipin Agarwal, a resident of Motihari town of Bihar, was shot dead on 24 September 2021 in broad Daylight on a busy road by two assailants astride a motorcycle. Last week, a young RTI activist, Avinash Jha, all of 23 years old, was brutally killed in Benipatti town of Madhubani district in Bihar. His half-burnt body was found on the side...
More »Editorial: In a stew
-The Telegraph The Centre’s efforts to introduce reformist laws to reinvigorate the business ecosystem can often be stymied by the states through regressive legislation Labour reform in India has always been a prickly subject and any attempt to amend legislation sparks outrage and resentment among one or the other group of stakeholders in the economy. When the Narendra Modi government crunched 29 Central laws into four labour codes last year, India Inc...
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