-The Hindu * Why has it stayed away from both the methane pledge and the forest conservation declaration at Glasgow? The story so far: At the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (the 26th Conference of Parties-COP26) in Glasgow, the United States and the European Union have jointly pledged to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane by 2030. They plan to cut down emissions by 30% compared with the 2020 levels. At...
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Centre to revise wage computation for rural, agricultural workers -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Business Line Labour Ministry has decided to change the base year of the Consumer Price Index for agriculture and rural workers Union Labour Ministry has decided to revise the wage calculation for India’s workforce. The Ministry, in its latest computations, has decided to change the base year of the Consumer Price Index for Agriculture Labourers and Rural Workers (CPI-AL&RW) to 2019. At present, the base year is 1986-87. According to a...
More »In Glasgow, all eyes on 2030 -D Raghunandan
-The Hindu COP26 must focus sharply on reducing emissions till 2030, rather than on net zero 2050, which is too distant a goal The stage is set for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, starting October 31. Major preparatory conferences and bilateral meetings have been held to persuade countries to raise their emission reduction commitments from the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. Some...
More »Packaged sugarcane juice to hit the shelves -Virendra Singh Rawat
-RuralVoice.in Kanpur-based National Sugar Institute (NSI) is working on a novel technology to safely package pure sugarcane juice without the use of preservatives. For this purpose, the NSI has signed an MoU with the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a CSIR laboratory. Lucknow: Sugarcane juice is one of the most refreshing energy drinks, especially in summers; yet highly undersold and undervalued as well. The good news is this matrix may well change...
More »Pressed in Steel: A Tale of Migrant Factory Workers in NCR’s Wazirpur and Badli Areas -Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Apremeya Sudarshan and Tavleen Kaur
-TheWire.in Promises made are hardly kept and the responsibility to maintain basic public amenities such as toilets, sewage and clean water facilities falls on the slum-dwellers themselves. This article comes from a study undertaken as part of a Centre for New Economic Studies (CNES) Visual Storyboard Initiative. The three-part photo essay on this storyboard can be accessed through the following links (Part I; Part II; Part III) and all video essays uploaded...
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