-Hindustan Times The World Population Prospects 2022 recently highlighted that India’s Total fertility Rate had come down from 5.9 children per woman in 1950 to 2.2 children per woman in 2020, just shy of 2.1 replacement level fertility. BJP MP Ravi Kishan will introduce private members' bill on population control today, days after Union minister Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha that the Government is not contemplating any legislative measures for...

-Livemint.com Bundelkhand Expressway: Opposition parties criticized the ruling BJP Government of Uttar Pradesh over potholes in the long-stretched road. A portion of the newly inaugurated 296-km-long Bundelkhand expressway has developed deep potholes due to heavy rainfall in Uttar Pradesh, within a week of Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching this long-stretched road. Durgesh Upadhyay, UP Expressway Industrial Authority spokesperson informed that the portion of Bundelkhand expressway has developed one-and-a-half-foot-deep potholes due to incessant rainfall...

-Cenfa.org In continuation of its pro-corporate and anti-poor tax policy, the Centre imposes tax on the common man battling hunger and inflation while sparing corporates making windfall gains and record profits In keeping with its anti-people and pro-corporate tax policy, the Central Government withdrew the windfall tax on oil exports on July 19th – 19 days after it was imposed – with effect from July 20. This comes a day after a...

-The Telegraph The InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change has pointed out weather variations, global warming, and water scarcity can adversely affect food production Climate change and the agrarian crisis are intertwined. They are manifest in the threat to food and nutritional security. These challenges have been further aggravated by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and reduced global food production. The looming hunger crisis is especially potent for vulnerable populations living in...

-The Hindu The inadequacy of monetary policy to address food-price-driven inflation has been recently flagged Globally, inflation is now the prime concern of Governments, even as there is a speculation that a recession may not be far behind. In India, though, Government agencies regularly announce that the country is growing at a much faster rate than most economies and presently assert that inflation is much lower. The growth performance is not so...