-Newsclick.in The state government is said to be formalising plans to give 40% of "degraded forest Land" to private firms, allege activists. New Delhi: Amidst the ongoing battle by tribal communities in India to formalise their Land claims, the Madhya Pradesh government has reportedly proposed the privatisation of 40% of “degraded forest Land” to private firms. The government claims that this Land is wasteLand and has degraded for multiple reasons, and that private...

-Livemint.com * The supply chain disruption in poultry continues, further hurting the nutritional standards of poorer households * The current steep prices of items that make up the retail food basket—be it eggs, pulses or vegetables—is evidently taking a toll on millions of Indian households NEW DELHI: Banks should not advance large loans to farmers, least of all to those in the poultry business, an exasperated Ramesh Mehla said over the phone. He...

-Counterview.net A new book, “Sustainable Development in India: A Comparison with the G-20”, authored by Dr Keshab Chandra Mandal, has regretted that though India’s GDP has doubled over the last one decade, its human development indicators are worse than not just developed countries of the Group of 20 countries but also developing countries who its members. The G-20 – consisting of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,...

-The Hindu It is reassuring that there is a signal from the Supreme Court about thinking and speaking about personal liberty There can be no better way for a judge of the Supreme Court of India to mark his birthday by celebrating the glorious constitutional duty that has been entrusted to him and his peers as officers of the highest court in the Land. Last week, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud did precisely this,...

-Newsclick.in/ Peoples Dispatch The senate inquiry announcement comes days after a petition by ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd to investigate Murdoch’s media monopoly in Australia garnered half a million signatures On Wednesday, November 11, the Australian Senate voted in favor of an inquiry into media monopolies in the country with the focus certain to be on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The move to hold an inquiry was proposed by Green Party senator Sarah...