-Livemint.com Over the past decade, China has strengthened its economic and military ties with India’s neighbours in South Asia, which could pose a challenge for India As India battles China, trouble in another part of India’s northern neighbourhood has flared up. Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli has accused India of hatching a conspiracy to topple him for publishing the country’s new map that depicts disputed territories as parts of Nepal. Even as...
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India Accounts for 45.8 Million of the World's 'Missing Females': UN Report
-PTI/ TheWire.in According to a UN report, India accounts for 45.8 million missing females as of 2020. United Nations: India accounts for 45.8 million of the world’s 142.6 million “missing females” over the past 50 years, a report by the United Nations said on Tuesday, noting that the country along with China forms the majority of such women globally. The State of World Population 2020 report released on Tuesday by the United Nations...
More »Are We Entering a New Phase of Increasing Hunger? -Bharat Dogra
-TheWire.in Warnings sound by the UN and its organs point to a food crisis which is worse than any seen in the last 50 years. On June 9, the United Nations warned that the world today faces a food crisis which is worse than any seen in the last 50 years. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said that nearly 50 million people risk falling into extreme poverty due to the pandemic. More specifically...
More »Kerala’s “First Bell”: A Mass Movement to Democratise Digital Education -Mukulika R
-Newsclick.in The state is now witnessing a historic mass movement that could give us crucial lessons on both how to save public education and democratise virtual learning. June in Kerala began with the devastating news of a 14-year old’s suicide in Malappuram, which allegedly took place due to her lack of resources to attend the virtual classes organised by the state government. To circumvent Kerala’s strict COVID-19 restrictions put in place since...
More »Explained: Reading the draft Environment Impact Assessment norms -Jay Mazoomdaar
-The Indian Express The Delhi High Court has extended the window for public feedback to the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020. A look at the changes proposed in the norms, and why these bother activists. On Tuesday, the Delhi High Court extended till August 11 the deadline for public feedback on the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020. This was after the government had changed the deadline from August 10...
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