-Newsclick.in Globalised capital would like a system that produces identical potential recruits and social support base for itself, which fits the Hindutva agenda, as reflected in NEP’s silence on caste. Education in post-Independence India was supposed to not just provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word). Since the concept of an “Indian nation”, although it existed in a rudimentary form...

-The Hindu Climate Equity Monitor underlines India’s demands for climate justice being at the heart of negotiations A day ahead of the commencement of the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland, India has officially endorsed a website, made by Indian climate experts, that lists the historical carbon dioxide emissions of developed countries. The database aims to highlight the disparity between the emissions of developed and developing countries with countries...

-Newsclick.in The daily wage earners accounted for the largest number of suicides in absolute numbers, at 37,666 in 2020. The share of this category in all suicides has increased from 12% in 2014 to 24.6% in 2020. Daily wage earners made up the largest share of total suicides in 2020, followed by self-employed and unemployed individuals, according to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). As per the report titled...

-Newsclick.in As per a report authored by People's Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG), 90& of the total allocated funds to the MGNREGA scheme had been utilised, even as five more months are left for the current financial year to end. On Friday, the "NREGA National Tracker" report, authored by People's Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG), was released for the April-September period of this year in a virtual press conference jointly held with...

-Hindustan Times Among those who died by suicide, students and small entrepreneurs saw the biggest jump, supporting anecdotal accounts of stress How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect accidental deaths and suicides in India? The 2020 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on October 28 confirms intuitive wisdom on this question. While the number of road accidents and associated deaths fell sharply, suicides saw a large increase. Among those who died by...