-The Hindu These cases can expose a large population to the virus than would otherwise occur Chennai: Eighty-six per cent of people in China who were infected with novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) were not tested in the two-week period before travel restrictions came into force on January 23 in Wuhan and other cities. And these undetected cases contributed to the majority of virus spread in the community, says a paper published in the...
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Govt shouldn’t junk unpleasant data -Biswajit Mandal & Saswati Chaudhuri
-The Hindu Business Line Suppressing data that point to low growth, rising joblessness and poverty impedes effective policymaking in a crisis Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech, said “data is the new oil” and stressed on the credibility of data to combat the difficulties in real-time monitoring of the Indian economy. She even proposed building data centre parks throughout the country so that skilful incorporation of data in every step...
More »Potentially Hazardous Changes Proposed under CSR Rules -Noshir H Dadrawala
-MoneyLife.in A news item published in the Business Standard on “New draft rules set to clamp down on CSR activities through trusts” has caused mass panic and pandemonium since morning. While it is good to be vigilant and leave no scope for ambiguity and address any vagueness in the language of the proposed new Rules (while we still can), let’s not get unduly alarmed either. There is time and adequate scope...
More »Ranjan Gogoi’s RS nomination: Has last bastion fallen, asks Justice Lokur -Seema Chishti
-The Indian Express In January 2018, Justices Gogoi, Lokur, J Chelameswar, and Kurian Joseph, the most senior judges then in the Supreme Court, in an unprecedented step, called a press conference to question the conduct of then CJI Dipak Misra, especially on the allocation of important cases. Reacting sharply to the nomination of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi as a Rajya Sabha member by the government, his former colleague Justice (retired) Madan B...
More »The coronavirus battle and its ripple effects on the economy -Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
-Livemint.com Direct handouts and fiscal rather than monetary action could help tide over the current shock and its potential after waves The Covid-19 pandemic is, above all, a human tragedy. The impact on the economy is at best second in the list of public policy concerns right now. Governments across the world have done well to sacrifice economic activity in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. However, the economic...
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