-The Hindu With no urban equivalent to the NREGA as yet, there must be a focus on supporting new forms of employment With the Indian economy gradually finding its feet after a historic contraction of negative 23.9% in the April-June quarter, economic commentators have busied themselves with debating the need for fiscal expansion and the viability of a “V-shaped recovery”. These debates, however, have shifted focus away from the employment question, considered...
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Bird flu deaths on the rise, environment ministry issues guidelines -Ishan Kukreti
-Down to Earth As many as 250 crows in Rajasthan, 1,700 migratory birds in Himachal Pradesh have died since December 2020 The Union Ministry of Environment, Science and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has ordered a strict vigil on the wintering habitats of migratory birds for any sign of a flu outbreak in the backdrop of rising deaths of birds. The ministry issued a set of guidelines January 3, 2021 in view of Himachal Pradesh...
More »Prison of Poverty: Agri Workers’ Wages Have Barely Increased in Modi Years -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in No scheme touches them, no law reaches them – but they hope that a better deal for farmers will benefit them. At the Ghazipur border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, Manish and a few of his friends have joined the farmers’ dharna only a few days back. They live in Baghpat district, barely a few dozen kilometres from the protest site but it could be another continent, or another age. “In the...
More »Government ropes in I-T department to crack down on GST fraud -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu Data being pooled to track evasion, says Finance Secretary. Tightening the noose around fraudsters rigging the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, the government has roped in the Income tax department to tap illicit incomes as part of a crackdown against 7,000 fraud companies, identified using data analytics tools, Finance Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey told The Hindu. Any income traceable to the use of fake bills and other GST frauds shall...
More »‘Doubtful Indians’ in AsSAM get a centre to learn their rights -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindu A group of 100 volunteers from various fields have teamed up with lawyers to arm economically and educationally weak people with knowledge about their rights against victimisation Guwahati: Aditpur has not been known for academics. But this village, about 20 km from western AsSAM’s Barpeta town, is teaching the Constitution of India to “doubtful” Indians who have never heard of it. Local activists and youth had on December 20 opened a...
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