-Down to Earth Lancet study says 5.5 million infant deaths in the world go unrecorded Every year, more than 750,000 children in India die before completing the first year of their lives. The number is more than that of any other country in the world. A research led by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine states India recorded 779,000 deaths in 2012. It was followed by Nigeria with 276,000 deaths, Pakistan with...
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Delhi's schoolchildren shop online to complete their homework -Neha Pushkarna
-The Hindustan Times New Delhi: "Leave Holiday Homework Worries. Get Holiday Homework for all classes done by Experts," reads an ad posted on OLX, an advertising portal. Teachers may not like it, but it appears that students who despise working on their holiday assignments have found a solution - to get the homework done by contacting some of these "experts". While children laze around through the ongoing summer vacation, there are plenty...
More »Finance, fertilizers and petroleum ministries to seek subsidy cuts-Sidhartha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A swathe of ministries - from finance to fertilizer and petroleum - are going to make a case for a reduction in subsidies before Narendra Modi, a move that will push up your monthly expenditure but is expected to help the government cut wasteful spending and revive Investment. Sources said the three ministries are identifying subsidies as a key constraint in their presentations that secretaries will make...
More »India's carbon footprint dilemma-Nitin Sethi
-The Business Standard Lots of assumptions but little to act upon in the Planning Commission report on low carbon growth It will take around $834 billion for the Indian economy to put Indian economy on a low carbon mode taking its emission intensity in 2030 down by 42% as compared to 2007 levels. This is the macro picture drawn by the Low Carbon growth study commissioned by India's Planning Commission. The study is...
More »World economy to strengthen as job growth remains ‘stubborn’ –UN report
-The United Nations The global economy is expected to strengthen over the next two years, despite a downgrade of growth prospects for some developing countries and transition economies, and "stubbornly slow" job growth, according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 mid-year update launched today in New York. "More than five years after the financial crisis, the world continues to struggle with getting the global economic engine back to...
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