-Newslaundry.com Lokanath Dalei was allegedly assaulted by police for reporting on alleged corruption within the Nilagiri police. The Odisha Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a case where an Odisha journalist was chained in handcuffs to a bed in a hospital in Balasore, after allegedly being assaulted by the police, the Indian Express reported. On Friday, the commission also directed the inspector general of Balasore to submit a report on...
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Argumentation by Misrepresentation -Mihir Shah and PS Vijayshankar
-Economic and Political Weekly In this response to Chris J Perry and M Dinesh Kumar’s critique of the authors’ co-authored paper, “Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship —I” by Mihir Shah, P S Vijayshankar and Francesca Harris (EPW, 17 July 2021), the authors seek to respond to a distortion of their views as well as what they claim is a ridiculing of powerful solutions to India’s water and...
More »Inflation is now the top concern: Reserve Bank of India
-The Telegraph Rising prices have now come to confront central banks globally, particularly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Mumbai: The RBI has brought inflation control to the forefront of its agenda. Pilloried for going soft on prices, the central bank sharply raised the inflation forecast for the year and warned it would withdraw its accommodative stance if inflation strayed too far away from the target. The RBI has been prioritising growth over inflation for...
More »Covishield, Covaxin to now cost private hospitals Rs 225 per dose -Milan Sharma
-IndiaToday.in Private hospitals will now be able to buy a single dose of Covid-19 vaccines Covishield and Covaxin at Rs 225. A single dose of the Serum Institute of India's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin will now cost private hospitals Rs 225. Private hospitals will charge Rs 150 for administering the dose. Adar Poonawalla, CEO of SII, said in a tweet on Saturday that the vaccine maker has decided to slash the prices...
More »India’s great poverty debate: Season 2 -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times Almost two and a half years after the 2017-18 Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) was scrapped, the ‘great Indian poverty debate’ seems to have resurrected itself. The second season of this debate, interestingly, has started from Washington DC, not India. Poverty statistics in India have always been the subject of controversy. The country saw a big debate on the trend in poverty and the veracity of poverty estimates in the 2000s....
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