-The Hindu Post-COVID learning for children should be accelerated, says World Bank’s Global Director for Education Jaime Saavedra. World Bank’s Global Director for Education Jaime Saavedra was in India last week to meet Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and governments of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh to discuss concerns over learning losses for children due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for concerted efforts to bridge these gaps. In a sit-down interview...

-The Telegraph Rising prices have now come to confront central banks globally, particularly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Mumbai: The RBI has brought inflation control to the forefront of its agenda. Pilloried for going soft on prices, the central bank sharply raised the inflation forecast for the year and warned it would withdraw its accommodative stance if inflation strayed too far away from the target. The RBI has Been prioritising growth over inflation for...

-Hindustan Times Almost two and a half years after the 2017-18 Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) was scrapped, the ‘great Indian poverty debate’ seems to have resurrected itself. The second season of this debate, interestingly, has started from Washington DC, not India. Poverty statistics in India have always Been the subject of controversy. The country saw a big debate on the trend in poverty and the veracity of poverty estimates in the 2000s....

-The Telegraph The BJP’s nationalism would have Been credible if it had a humane, inclusive face The prime minister has assured his legion of admirers that India’s stature is rising in the global order. The countrymen, however, can spot only one thing that is on an unprecedented rise: the price of essential commodities. On Tuesday, the price of diesel scored a century in Bengal, much like petrol that is already burning a...

-Hindustan Times No part of the village common land can be re-partitioned amongst the proprietors and such land would not be available for sale, the Supreme Court ruled Chandigarh: Thousands of acres of village common land (shamilat deh) in Haryana sold off by shareholders or gram panchayat for monetary gains would get freed with the owners being ousted following a Supreme Court ruling on Thursday. The shamilat deh is reserved and used...