-The Tribune With policy-backing, subsidies and availability of easy credit, farmers are being pushed to buy more machines. Punjab has five times more tractors than required. As more technological gadgets and machines are promoted, farmers are INCreasingly sucked into a debt cycle, while equipment manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank. At a time when farmers across the world are struggling to recover their cost of production, an Oxfam report...
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In April, Hate Speech Up by 38% on Facebook, Violent Content Up by 86% on Instagram: Meta
-PTI/ TheWire.in According to the report released on May 31, Facebook detected 53,200 hate speeches in April. There has been a rise of around 37.82% in hate speech on social media platform Facebook and 86% jump in violent and INCiting content on Instagram in April, according to a monthly report released by Meta. The majority of the content in the report is based on detection by social media platforms before users reported to...
More »A case for community-oriented health services -Chandrakant Lahariya
-The Hindu The recent global recognition for India’s ASHAs should be used as a chance to iron out the challenges in the programme India’s one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) volunteers have received arguably the biggest international recognition in form of the World Health Organization’s Global Health Leaders Awards 2022. The ASHAs were among the six awardees announced at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This World Health Organization (WHO)...
More »Lakhimpur Kheri: Massacre case witness alleges attack -Piyush Srivastava
-The Telegraph Bhartiya Kisan Union (Tikait) district president says he was driving home in his SUV when two bike-borne attackers fired at him Lakhimpur Kheri (UP): A witness in the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre case in which a Union minister’s son is an accused has complained that shots were fired at him on Tuesday night. Dilbagh Singh, the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Tikait) district president, said he had escaped unhurt. He was driving home in...
More »Old Age Pension: Stagnant Amounts and Gender Differential -Richa Chintan
-Newsclick.in SINCe 2007, the central government has given a meagre Rs 7 to Rs 16 per day to the elderly. Some states have recently announced an INCrease in entitlements under the old-age pension scheme. For instance, Andhra Pradesh INCreased the old age pension amount by about Rs 250 to Rs 2500 per month at the beginning of 2022. More recently, the Uttar Pradesh government has announced an INCrease in the old-age pension...
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