-The Hindu Existing laws on juvenile justice, bonded labour and POCSO sufficient, say experts. The emphasis on criminalisation and policing instead of welfare measures in the new proposed anti-trafficking Bill makes it anti-migrants and anti-sex workers, warn experts. The Ministry of Women and Child Development recently placed the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021, in the public domain and sought stakeholders' comments till July 14. The Bill is also scheduled...

-The Hindu Business Line Total area down 11.5 per cent; coarse cereals, oilseeds planting drops 20% With the south-west monsoon being seven per cent below normal till Friday, sowing of kharif crops continues to be affected. Data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmerss Welfare show that sowing lost its momentum further in terms of percentage. Data showed that a total of 612 lakh hectares (lh) had been covered till date compared...

-The Hindu Business Line Red flags about some inconsistencies and the resulting legal inefficacy of normative provisions of the Act Former Union Agriculture Minister and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday to raise his apprehensions about the formation of Cooperation Ministry and the amendments in Banking Regulation Act. Pawar urged Modi to ensure that the co-operative principles laid down in the Constitution should not be sacrificed at...

-Scroll.in Unless the Centre and states act swiftly, the humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen. As India witnesses a record-breaking surge of Covid-19 cases, the Central and state governments have been scrambling to find appropriate responses to handle this health crisis. At a time when the healthcare system is severely strained, many state governments not surprisingly have employed public health or non-pharmaceutical interventions to control the spread of the disease. These interventions...

-Economic and Political Weekly An argument for twin propositions is presented in this two-pART paper: (i) that solving India’s water problem requires a paradigm shift in agriculture (PART I), and (ii) that the crisis in Indian agriculture cannot be resolved without a paradigm shift in water management and governance (PART II). If farming takes up 90% of India’s water and just three water-intensive crops continue to use 80% of agricultural water,...