-The Hindu Bhuira's women are coping with the higher workload by creating vastly more flexible family and community structures. And they are simultaneously pushing towards modernity much faster than their neighbours. Everyone in the village sneaks a glance when Upasana Kumari drives her White Maruti 800 to work. “Driving a car is intoxicating,” says Kumari. A winding, muddy, single lane road that starts from the edge of the hillock where Kumari’s house...
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In Modi govt, just 4% of IAS officers are from Gujarat cadre, but they hold the key posts -Sanya Dhingra
-ThePrint.in Of the 18 Gujarat IAS officers in the Central government, 4 serve in the PMO, 4 in the finance ministry and 2 in the home ministry. New Delhi: Ever since Narendra Modi led the BJP to victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and moved from being Gujarat chief minister to India’s prime minister, there has been much speculation about the civil servants from his home state in the central government. Who...
More »Why record foodgrain production failed to cheer farm input providers -R Sree Ram
-Livemint.com Both fertilizer and agrochemical companies are highly dependent on imports for raw materials. With rupee depreciation exacerbating the rise in prices of raw materials, the profitability of the companies is expected to take a hit this year The forecast of a record foodgrain production in the ongoing kharif season has brought no cheer to agricultural inputs stocks. Shares of Rallis India Ltd lost 3% last week. Dhanuka Agritech Ltd slumped 12%....
More »Host Of Private Companies, Organisations Shut Out Of Aadhaar, But Identity Law Stands -Tish Sanghera & Chaitanya Mallapur
-India Spend Mumbai: Private entities cannot demand Aadhaar data to authenticate identity. Individuals must be allowed to file complaints against the use of their data. Information can be accessed for matters of national security only when a judicial officer such as a sitting High Court judge has sanctioned it. These were the highlights in a series of landmark rulings by India’s Supreme Court as it ruled against the use of an...
More »Long road ahead: on Ayushman Bharat scheme
-The Hindu Budgetary support must be strengthened to make Ayushman Bharat a success Ayushman Bharat has been rolled out as a health protection scheme that will provide guaranteed access to treatment that is free at the point of delivery to about 40% of the population selected on the basis of censused socio-economic indicators. It is the essential first step on the road to universal health coverage, although it has been launched by...
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