-Hindustan Times U-turns on net neutrality, porn ban and now the draft encryption policy. This is the third time in as many months that the Centre has had to take a step back in the face of a strong public outcry against ‘draft policies’ relating to technology and the digital consumer. For a government that is committed to a Digital India and transformative powers of technology, the series of missteps point to...

-The Times of India LUCKNOW: VIP districts getting 24X7 power supply in Uttar Pradesh are also among places with maximum power theft. And two districts on top of this dubious list are Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Varanasi and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's Azamgarh constituencies. In fact, both have seen a huge jump in line losses. In Varanasi, the line loss has gone up from 43.18% to 50.13% while in Azamagarh, it...

-The Indian Express Government’s actions on the commodity reveals it is ignorant of how a market economy is run With each passing day this year, agriculture seems to be sagging and so is the Indian farmer. Deficit monsoon rains appear to be the trigger. Although rains offered some respite to Marathwada, the situation in India’s largest agri-state, Uttar Pradesh, has gone from bad to worse. Last year’s drought, with monsoon rains falling...

-The Hindu Business Line A narrow focus on growth-led development is the cause of the world’s sustainability crisis, not its solution The world’s political leaders meet in New York today to adopt a ‘sustainable development’ agenda. On the face of it, this sounds very hopeful. It signals that finally, humanity may move towards making peace with the earth, even as it erases the shame of over two billion people still living in...

-Press Release from Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan The Delhi Rozi Roti AdhikarAbhiyan today held a Jan Sunnwai on the problems being faced by people in Delhi while accessing their PDS entitlements under the Natonal Food Security Act (NFSA). The NFSA provides for priority ration cards for 42% of Delhi’s population. Households with priority ration cards are eligible to receive 5kgs of foodgrains per person per month at subsidised prices....