-TheWire.in Even with apparent deformities to their bodies, many leprosy-affected individuals are not recognised as ‘disabled’ by the state health department. Vijayawada/ GunTur: Kodavalli Ramadevi avoids visiting the fair price shop in Godugu Vari Gudem village at Nuzwid mandal in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh at the beginning of the month to collect her rations. She waits for at least ten days every month, just to ensure that everyone in the...
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The rise and fall of the WTO -C Rammanohar Reddy
-The Hindu As the U.S. loses interest in multilateralism in trade, India should actively try to arrest the organisation’s slide Less than 25 years after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was created, its fuTure as a body overseeing multilateral trade rules is in doubt. The failure of the recent ministerial meeting at Buenos Aires is only symptomatic of a decline in its importance. Too ambitious? When the WTO was born in 1995, replacing the...
More »What drives crime by juveniles in India -Chethan Kumar
-The Times of India BENGALURU: From growing divorce cases of parents to dysfunctional families to a changing atmosphere in schools and colleges, children aged below 18 in India are increasingly finding it difficult to cope with situations and are straying, reveals an analysis of the latest crime statistics. Raising questions on the belief that children without parents and those living on the streets are more prone to committing crimes, data from the...
More »Adivasis from BJP-ruled Jharkhand Urge President To Stop Eviction of 3 Lakh People
-Caravandaily.com The tribal representation appealed to President of India to use his authority as guardian of the constitution to prevent this planned mass evictions as the projects are ill conceived and constitute a form of land grab. NEW DELHI: As about three lakh people from tribal communities in Jharkhand are facing eviction from their homes due to some projects, their representative group met President of India Ram Nath Kovind here on Friday...
More »Economist rues rise of hate -Devadeep Purohit
-The Telegraph Calcutta: Economist Kaushik Basu on Friday regretted the rise of a "narrow-minded" approach and "hatred" in the country. Basu, the C. Marks professor of international studies and professor of economics at Cornell University, made the observation while delivering a lecTure on"economics and morality" in memory of Swami Lokeswarananda of the Ramakrishna Mission. "In today's India, we are getting narrow-minded. There is hatred among people," rued the former chief economist of the...
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