-Down to Earth India had pressed for a concrete solution to the issue; but some other countries hardened their positions, resulting in a lack of consensus, according to a delegate The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World trade Organization (WTO) that began in Geneva June 12, ended June 16, with India’s demand to seek a permanent solution on public stockholdings (PSH) of food grains being pushed to MC13 in 2023. A member...
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Off to school through swirling waters -Abdul Latheef Naha
-The Hindu Lack of bridge across the Chaliyar hits tribal students in Kerala Malappuram: Dozens of children from four marooned tribal hamlets in the jungle across the Chaliyar river at Munderi near Nilambur in Kerala are risking their lives to reach schools every day. They have been forced to use bamboo rafts to cross the river since two bridges were washed away in the floods that devastated one of the hamlets in...
More »'Agnipath' Protests In 7 States, Mobs Burn Trains, Block Roads: 10 Points -Alok Pandey and Manish Kumar
-NDTV.com Several parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have witnessed protests over the new military recruitment policy. The protest had spread to BJP-ruled Haryana and Madhya Pradesh too. New Delhi: At least one person has died and several others injured as angry mob set trains on fire and clashed with police in several states over the new military recruitment policy, Agnipath. The government has defended the scheme, calling it "transformative". * A person...
More »Youth block roads, torch trains in protest over Agnipath scheme -Imran Ahmed Siddiqui
-The Telegraph Protestors shout slogans against Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh, calling Centre's move a 'cruel joke' and demand its immediate rollback The depth of the job crisis in the country and the despair of its youth have broken through the coiffured veneer. Armed forces job aspirants disappointed at the Agnipath recruitment scheme exploded in protest from Bihar to Jammu on Thursday, blocking roads and tracks, torching trains and stoning the police. Please click...
More »To Rubbish WHO’s 2020 COVID Death Estimates, India Used Flawed Data, Analysis -Shreegireesh Jalihal and Tapasya
-TheWire.in * On May 5, 2022, the WHO estimated that 100.51 lakh people died in India in 2020. Of this, it estimated 8.30 lakh were COVID-linked deaths. * In its May 5 press release rejecting the WHO figures, the Union health ministry claimed that 81.20 lakh people died in 2020 – even lower than the number estimated to have died in 2019. * But the health ministry was wrong by a long margin...
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