SEARCH RESULT

Total Matching Records found : 2921

Instead of relying on jugaad, journalists need access to court pleadings. Here’s why -Chitrakshi Jain & Prashant Reddy T

-Newslaundry.com Not only is the procedure to access records unnecessarily complicated, but the courts have the discretion to judge a citizen’s motivation to access them. Over the course of the next few weeks, the United States Congress is expected to pass the Open Courts Act, which will make PACER – the digital database for accessing court records filed with the federal judiciary – accessible to everybody, free of cost! The law sets...

More »

All that glitters is hidden wealth -Jaideep Hardikar

-The Telegraph In India, inequality has been normalised While we know that inequality is bad, we do not deal with it. In India, we have normalized it, just like brazen communalization, bigotry and untruth. This is perhaps because many of us are complicit in perpetuating the inequality. Some data released this month provide a grim commentary on what is happening in the underbelly of the country. Scan through the regional dailies and you...

More »

Prof. Jean Dreze, academician and social activist, interviewed by Anil Varghese (Forward Press)

-Forward Press An email interview with one of the foremost development economists against the backdrop of the latest report of the World Inequality Lab describing India as one of the most unequal countries in the world The World Inequality Lab has just published the World Inequality Report 2022. The Paris-based organization, which is directed by top economists, including Thomas Piketty, has painted a grim picture of the inequality in India based on...

More »

Impact of crop diversity on dietary diversity among farmers amidst Covid-19 -Public Health Foundation of India

-Hindustan Times The study has been authored by Aditi Roy, PHFI Crop diversity is thought to have small, positive impacts on dietary diversity among farming households, particularly when market access is restricted. Policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic severely restricted market access. To date, no study has explored the relationship between crop and dietary diversity in this context. To address this gap, we used longitudinal data collected from 833 farmers across 12...

More »

Health account numbers that require closer scrutiny -Indranil

-The Hindu The reduction of out-of-pocket expenditure that the NHA highlights is essentially due to a decline in utilisation of care Low public spending on health in India has meant that people depend heavily on their own means to access health care. It causes rich-poor, rural-urban, gender and caste-based divides in access to health care, pushes people to poverty, and forces them to incur debt or sell assets. As a result, our...

More »

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close