-The Telegraph The BJP’s nationalism would have been credible if it had a humane, inclusive face The prime minister has assured his legion of admirers that India’s stature is rising in the global order. The countrymen, however, can spot only one thing that is on an unprecedented rise: the price of essential commodities. On Tuesday, the price of diesel scored a century in Bengal, much like petrol that is already burning a...

-IndiaToday.in The Russia-Ukraine war is likely to hit the Indian economy, resulting in rising prices, experts said. Here's what will get more expensive. Hundreds dead, buildings damaged, charred bodies on the streets. The large-scale destruction caused by Russian forces in Ukraine has left the world horrified. According to experts, the war will spell doom for the Indian economy, which will face turbulence in days to come. Moving at a snail's pace, petrol and...

-TheCitizen.in 7 dams, 3 weirs, 2 tunnels and a canal A people’s movement against a river linking project in Gujarat and Maharashtra has won a significant victory in south Gujarat, where Adivasi dominated areas have been on the boil the last few weeks over plans to execute a Par-Tapi-Narmada interlinking project that would divert the “surplus water” of these rivers in the Western Ghats to water scarce areas in Kutch and Saurashtra. Media...

-TheWire.in According to a research note by SBI, for every one dollar of increase in the pooled gas rate, India’s fertiliser subsidy bill shoots up by Rs 4,000-5,000 crore. There is no such thing as a localised conflict in a globalised world. Sooner rather than later, fallouts from the Russia-Ukraine war will overwhelm the operations of developed and developing economies alike, leading up to the largest, and possibly, the worst food crisis...

-Newsclick.in The rights group in its writ petition had contended that the blanket exemption given to these services of a non-combatant nature from recruiting people with disabilities was unconstitutional. After a writ petition by the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD), the Supreme Court on Friday passed an interim order allowing physically disabled persons, who have cleared the civil services exam, to provisionally apply to the Union Public Service...