-Moneycontrol.com Food inflation rose to 12.41 percent in June from 10.89 percent, with the food index rising 1.3 percent month-on-month India's inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) declined to 15.18 percent in June, according to data released by the commerce ministry on July 14. The WPI inflation was 15.88 percent in May, the highest in at least three decades. In June 2021, it stood at 12.07 percent. Another month of double-digit wholesale...
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The debate around the Forest Conservation Rules -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu * What are the Forest Conservation Rules and how will it affect forest dwellers and tribals? What is the government’s position on the updated rules? The story so far: The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sparred earlier this week on the latest version of the Forest Conservation Rules. Congress spokesperson, Jairam Ramesh, alleged that the latest version of the rules, updated last month, allowed forest land to be...
More »Does India have enough rice for welfare schemes and ethanol? What the govt is missing -Siraj Hussain
-ThePrint.in Procurement of rice stocks has seen a significant increase. But India is seeing deficient rains and increase of ethanol distilleries. The Narendra Modi government’s move to ban wheat export was followed by several other measures to conserve stocks, which were projected to deplete in 2022-23 on account of lower procurement in the central pool, continuation of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana up to September, and the possibility 5 million tonnes...
More »NEP Position Paper to Schools: Meat and Eggs Are Bad for Health and Nation -Megha
-TheWire.in * A position paper drafted by a group of experts under the National Education Policy 2020 advances a misguided idea of nutrition couched in the language of nationalism. * The paper recommends that meat and eggs be removed from midday meals and from children’s lessons, but on unscientific grounds and through statements devoid of evidence. * The paper also uses conflates wildly different – and potentially dangerous – terms like “gene-diet interactions”,...
More »‘Flood Jihad’: How Media Outlets Communalised Silchar Floods -Archit Mehta
-TheWire.in More than a month after this incident, Assam’s chief minister called the flooding in Silchar a “man-made” disaster. Several media outlets then added an anti-Muslim spin. While reporting on the Assam floods in June, the Indian Express stated that Silchar – southern Assam’s biggest town and the gateway to the three districts on the bank of the Barak river – had submerged in water unlike “ever before in its history.” By...
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