-The Indian Express The owners of Republic media and News Nation have been named as wanted accused in the chargesheet. The police said they were likely to charge them in a supplementary chargesheet later. The Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Monday filed a 1,400-page chargesheet in the alleged fake Television Rating Points (TRP) case, naming six channels, including those of Republic Media Network and News Nation, as allegedly paying money to boost...
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The migrant worker as a ghost among citizens -Sampath G
-The Hindu A new publication contends that their lockdown misery was no anomaly but an effect of exclusion from full citizenship When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s most stringent lockdown on March 24, 2020 with barely four hours notice, lakhs of migrant workers across the country found themselves trapped in a novel situation: their livelihood in the city was gone, but they could not return to their native villages. The...
More »Hunger, nutrition are worse than before lockdown. PDS must be universalised -Dipa Sinha and Rajendran Narayanan
-The Indian Express All indications show that an economic revival will take some time — support is required during this period to at least prevent starvation. The effects of the lockdown and the resultant economic crisis continue to disproportionately impact the poor and informal sector workers. Since the lockdown, the Government of India (GoI) has announced relief packages under the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) and Atmanirbhar Bharat. However, numerous studies...
More »Raghuram Rajan says proposal to allow business houses into banking is a 'bad idea' -J Jagannath
-Livemint.com The former RBI governor, and Viral Acharya, a former RBI deputy governor questioned timing of the RBI panel's proposal at a time when 'India is still trying to learn the lessons from failures like IL&FS & Yes Bank' New Delhi: Raghuram Rajan and Viral Acharya on Monday criticised RBI Internal Working Group's recommendation to allow Indian corporate houses to set up banks as part of proposed changes to the banking sector. Raghuram...
More »Odisha’s Bonda tribe sees rise in ‘distress migration’ -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu While the youth have abandoned villages for work in distant towns, children have dropped out of schools after pandemic Andrahal: Perched at a height of 3,500ft above sea level in the hilly Malkangiri district of Odisha, this village is difficult to access and so are its inhabitants — the Bondas, a particularly vulnerable tribal group, known for their secluded lives away from the mainstream. However, the lack of access has not...
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