-Livemint.com With sex tied to marriage, the first sexual experience for Indians is occurring later than ever The median Indian man has his first experience of sex at nearly age 25, the last among men from 67 countries for which comparable data is available, the National Family Health Survey released last month shows. The NFHS, and similar surveys conducted around the developing world through the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) system, help shine...
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The Return of Food Inflation: Why it’s Different this time -Samridhi Agarwal and Harish Damodaran
-Centre for Policy Research Since the start of this calendar year, annual consumer price index (CPI) inflation has ruled not only above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) target of 4%, but even its upper tolerance level of 6%, for every month from January to May. If we take the 38 months from April 2019 to May 2022 – roughly coinciding with the Narendra Modi-led government’s second term (Modi 2.0) –...
More »Mohammed Zubair Moves Delhi HC Against Police Remand
-TheWire.in/&NBSp;With PTI inputs Justice Sanjeev Narula has agreed to list the matter for hearing on Friday, July 1. New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair has approached the Delhi high court challenging his police remand in a case where police has deemed his 2018 tweet of a film still ‘objectionable’ and capable of causing religious animosity. The petition, which challenges a trial court’s June 28 order granting four days of custody of Zubair...
More »A Fresh Spike in Farmer Suicides in Punjab -Shweta Saini, Siraj Hussain and Pulkit Khatri
-TheIndiaForum.in Since 2015, there has been a sharp rise in farmer suicides in Punjab. Farmers in the state borrow large loans at high interest rates; some of which is used for consumption. According to official data, 51% of farmer suicides in Punjab are due to a high level of indebtedness, mostly to institutions. Farmer suicides are back in focus. Media reports suggest that in April 2022 alone 14 Punjab farmers died by...
More »Going under: Coastal Odisha under existential threat -Ranjan Panda
-Down to Earth In a warming world, governments are far from prepared to resettle people evicted by sea-level rise&NBSp; Bay of Bengal is the hotbed of tropical cyclones. Estimates show that eight of the 10 deadliest tropical cyclones in the world have originated here. Over the past few decades, cyclones in Bay of Bengal have not only become frequent, the region is also experiencing the largest relative increase of flood risk and...
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