-NDTV.com "A constitutional bench has already examined all aspects of sedition law in context of fundamental rights," the Centre said in its statement.  New Delhi: The Centre today defended the sedition law and asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the pleas challenging it. The court is hearing a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the colonial-era law. In a written submission, the Centre told the three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice...

-The Hindu Classes 1-5 to benefit; this is among 5 schemes announced Chennai: On the occasion of the DMK government of Chief Minister M. K. Stalin stepping into its SECond year on Saturday, the State was richer by five new development schemes. Mr. Stalin made the announcements in the Assembly. The schemes are a free morning breakfast scheme for government school students, a scheme to eradicate nutrition deficiency, establishment of schools of excellence...

-TheWire.in An investigation has found that the industry and lobbyists have sabotaged efforts to rein in such behaviour.  New Delhi/London/Rome: Food prices have climbed to unprecedented levels in recent months, adding to an already precarious food SECurity situation in large parts of the developing world. Nearly 200 million people already faced acute food inSECurity in 2021, almost double the figure from 2016, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday.   The report blamed the...

-Mint Lounge Why Nehruvian planning failed in the long term Early Indian liberal nationalists such as Dadabhai Naoroji, Romesh Chunder Dutt and Kashinath Trimbak Telang used the power of numbers to undermine the legitimacy of British rule in the SECond half of the 19th century. They took the data collected by the colonial bureaucracy to attack the very system those numbers were meant to sustain, turning the tables in the process. The...

-Livemint.com India’s lack of official data for estimates could impair policy formulation and thus hurt the economy Two different sets of poverty estimates for India were released recently. One of the papers was authored by Surjit Bhalla, Karan Bhasin, and Arvind Virmani and the SECond by Sutirtha Roy and Roy Weide, both affiliated to the World Bank. Both presented estimates for roughly the same period, after 2011-12, but ended up at starkly...