-The Telegraph New Delhi: A mother of newborn twins has challenged in the Supreme Court the RBI's decision not to accept demonetised notes till March 31 in spite of the PRIme Minister giving such an assurance to the nation. Sudha Mishra, through her counsel Animesh Kumar, pleaded that she was expecting in November last year when the demonetisation was announced by PRIme Minister Narendra Modi. The Delhi-based Mishra was then at her...
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What you can do with Re 1 in India -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has raised wages under the rural job guarantee scheme - by the PRIncely sum of one rupee a day in many states. The increase is the lowest in the 11-year history of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and leaves its wage rates in 11 states stuck far below their minimum wages, set by the state governments. The eastern states are the worst hit. As...
More »There Is A Place For Aadhaar, But The Mid Day Meal Is Not It -Rukmini S
-HuffingtonPost.in This is a way to force Aadhaar enrolment, not fix the scheme. Children will suffer. I am not usually an opponent of Aadhaar, India's controversial scheme to give a unique identification number to all residents of India, with their biometric information seeded into it. Any fears that I may have about PRIvacy or surveillance or misuse are overridden by my experience that what the poor want is to be counted, not...
More »The high PRIce of Big Pharma greed -Leena Menghaney
-The Hindu In 2014, an Indian pharmaceutical company was globally the first to receive approval to market a biosimilar, thereby affordable version, of the breast cancer drug Trastuzumab. Almost immediately, Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, innovator of the drug, filed a suit against the Indian Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to block its sale. The action firmly put their profits ahead of the lives of women with breast cancer. Roche effectively embroiled India’s...
More »MS Swaminathan, Father of the Indian Green Revolution and renowned agri-scientist, interviewed by Rajalakshmi Nirmal (The Hindu Business Line)
-The Hindu Business Line MS Swaminathan talks of the problems plaguing farmers and possible solutions Father of the Indian Green Revolution and renowned agri-scientist, Prof MS Swaminathan, in an interview with BusinessLine, states emphatically that the Centre’s promise of doubling farmer income can become a reality if careful thought is applied and a comprehensive plan is drawn up. The role of the State and the public are crucial here, he stresses. Excerpts: *...
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