-TheWire.in We must change the parameters we use to judge the "productivity" of parliament. My first few days in the Rajya Sabha were tumultuous enough to realise that classics like Erskine May’s Parliamentary Practice, the bible of Westminster, would really have to be ‘tropicalised’ a lot to adjust to the gross realities of the world’s largest and beleaguered democracy. The small endoscopic view of parliament’s functioning also leads to the belief that...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 16938
IPCC report: ‘Code red’ for human driven global heating, warns UN chief
-United Nations News Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Scientists are also observing changes across the whole of Earth’s climate system; in the atmosphere, in the...
More »No time to lose, says Sunita Narain on the new IPCC report
-Press release by Centre for Science and Environment dated 9th August, 2021 The latest IPCC report confirms that we can no longer lose time in prevarication or in finding new excuses not to act, including empty promises of net zero by 2050. We bring you an appraisal of the report’s findings by CSE director general Sunita Narain * The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the first part of its sixth...
More »Chandni Chowk revamp: Why have they mindlessly used sandstone? -Mohd Asim Khan
-NationalHeraldIndia.com Historian-Filmmaker Sohail Hashmi frowns at the way the historic Chandni Chowk has been revamped. The entire Work is totally disconnected from area's history and heritage, he says Redevelopment of the 1.3 km stretch from the Red Fort at one end and Fatehpuri Masjid at the other is complete. The attempt to impress ‘foreign tourists’, however, has left residents and historians disappointed. The ‘mindless exercise’ has merely enriched contractors and suppliers of...
More »Less Jobs, Even Lesser Income Crushing People’s Lives -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Besides the dire jobs situation, what is even more distressing is falling income from surviving jobs. People in India are in the grip of a severe income crisis brought on by myopic government policies and aggravated by mismanagement of the pandemic. Part of this economic collapse is because the absolute number of jobs has shrunk. Another part – not much talked about – is because of low incomes from existing jobs. This...
More »
