-Livemint.com Abject poverty, high levels of debt, and crop failures among the leading causes behind farmer suicides, according to a study commissioned by agriculture ministry New Delhi: Abject poverty, high levels of indebtedness, crop failures and pressure to repay loans are among the leading causes behind farmer suicides, according to the preliminary findings of a study commissioned by the Union agriculture ministry. The broad findings of the study conducted by the Institute for...
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Centre revokes UGC directive on making PhD scholars' Aadhaar details public -Prakash Kumar
-Deccan Herald Clarifies that publishing and displaying Aadhaar in public is prohibited The Centre has asked the universities not to make public Aadhaar number of PhD scholars, withdrawing the university grants commission's (UGC) instruction which required all of the varsities to upload the data of their students along with their unique identification numbers on their websites since last year. “It is informed that the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits...
More »The Centre Has Abdicated Its Responsibility to Farmers Through Its Pricing Policies -Kavitha Kuruganti
-TheWire.in The insurance coverage in 2015 was 22.3%, with a government expenditure of Rs 2,955 crore. But by spending 4.5x since, how does the government admit to a coverage of only 23%? Farmer suicides and agrarian distress have likely never been among the national public debates as they are right now. A group of Tamil Nadu farmers, whose protests in New Delhi were dubbed ‘bizarre’ but who were actually desperate for debate and...
More »Whistleblowers at risk? Activists protest as govt prepares to notify new RTI rules -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The government is all set to notify a new set of Right to Information rules that will allow appeals to be withdrawn and, according to activists, put the lives of whistleblowers in danger. The government is all set to notify a new set of Right to Information (RTI) rules that will allow appeals to be withdrawn and, according to activists, put the lives of whistleblowers in danger. The Central...
More »'Aadhaar-PAN linking a Faustian bargain' -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Linking Aadhaar with essential activities will turn the nation into a concentration camp, SC told Lashing out at the move to link Aadhaar to the permanent account number and filing of income tax returns, senior advocate Shyam Divan told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the Constitution was not a charter of servitude. “We are independent citizens who cannot be forced by the State to part with our fingerprints in exchange...
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