-Livemint.com NTPC Ltd plans to procure 2.5 million tonne of biomass pellets as a fuel to generate electricity at its projects NEW DELHI: As part of the Centre’ plan to contain pollution by crop stubble burning, state-run NTPC Ltd plans to procure 2.5 million tonne (mt) of biomass pellets as a fuel to generate electricity at its projects. These pellets will be mixed with coal as fuel to generate electricity. With the onset...
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A Homogenised Education System Blends Well with Hindutva -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in Globalised capital would like a system that produces identical potential recruits and social support base for itself, which fits the Hindutva agenda, as reflected in NEP’s silence on caste. Education in post-Independence India was supposed to not just provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word). Since the concept of an “Indian nation”, although it existed in a rudimentary form...
More »Daily Wage Earners Made up the Largest Share of Total Suicides in 2020: NCRB Report
-Newsclick.in The daily wage earners accounted for the largest number of suicides in absolute numbers, at 37,666 in 2020. The share of this category in all suicides has increased from 12% in 2014 to 24.6% in 2020. Daily wage earners made up the largest share of total suicides in 2020, followed by self-employed and unemployed individuals, according to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). As per the report titled...
More »Why BJP is here to stay -Aunindyo Chakravarty
-The Tribune Consolidation of non-dominant OBCs and Dalits the primary reason Prashant ‘PK’ KISHOR has upset his greatest supporters, India’s English-speaking liberals, by saying that the BJP is going to be the ‘centre of Indian polity’ for decades to come, and that one should not ‘ever get into the trap that people are getting angry and they will throw away Modi.’ This, to many anti-Modi voices, is the unkindest cut of all,...
More »Finding George Floyd in Gujarat: A day in the life of the Siddi community -Joydip Mitra
-Newslaundry.com Racism is as much a religion in India as is cricket. The Siddis know this too well. “We know that you Indians want to see us, the n*****, act like animals,” said Nazim Siddi, 30. Nazim’s words, and his deliberate usage of a racial slur, lashed me like a whip. I was attending a Goma performance on top of a secluded hillock behind the mazar of Baba Gohr in Ratanpur, located 30 km...
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