-The Hindu * Why has it stayed away from both the methane pledge and the forest conservation declaration at Glasgow? The story so far: At the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (the 26th Conference of Parties-COP26) in Glasgow, the United States and the European Union have jointly pledged to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane by 2030. They plan to cut down emissions by 30% compared with the 2020 levels. At...
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Charting a trade route after the MC12 -Biswajit Dhar
-The Hindu An upbeat global trade scenario provides an ideal setting for Trade Ministers to correct iniquitous rules and provisions The World Trade Organization (WTO)’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) is being convened in Geneva, Switzerland at the end of this month, a year-and-a-half after it was scheduled to be held in Kazakhstan (June 2020, but postponed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic). The MC12 is being held at an important juncture when...
More »Tripura Police Books 102 People Under UAPA for Social Media Posts Against Communal Violence -Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
-TheWire.in Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police's 'highhanded' behaviour. New Delhi: The Tripura Police has booked 102 people under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for protesting, or even merely mentioning, the recent communal violence in the state’s northern districts on different social media platforms. This latest move reflects the trend of Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled States attempting to criminalise protests. According to sources in the Tripura Police, cases have been filed...
More »Has India’s Informal Economy Really Shrunk? The Actual Story Is Different -Biswajit Dhar
-TheQuint.com A recent SBI report, which States that the informal economy has declined, avoids even defining ‘informal economy’. A recent edition of “Ecowrap”, a publication of the research team of the State Bank of India (SBI), has claimed that India’s informal economy has sharply declined from 52.4 per cent in 2017-18 to between 15 and 20 per cent in 2020-21 in the three years since 2017-18. This finding by the SBI research...
More »India’s Fertility Transition and Differences between Religious Groups -KS James and Md Juel Rana
-TheIndiaForum.in ‘Overpopulation’ can no longer be a concern in India, as across States and across religious groups fertility has been falling in recent decades and approaching replacement level. Fears about a demographic shift between religious groups are not based on fact. India’s demographic trends have been viewed optimistically in recent years, compared to the second half of the 20th century when the discourse was about “overpopulation”. Undoubtedly, the country is now passing...
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