-The Telegraph Unemployed man's card reaches him, but after his demise Ranchi: Bhukhal Ghasi, an unemployed villager of Bokaro district had no RATion card when he died, allegedly of starvation. Now the RATion card that has been issued after his death entitles him to RATion, posthumously. That was what a fact-finding team of the Jharkhand wing of the Right to Food Campaign found in Bhukhal’s village, Karma Shankardih under Singhpur panchayat of Kasmar...
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Count work, not workers -Sonalde Desai
-The Indian Express Decline in women work participation RATes can be traced to poor quality of data collection processes. India is one of the few countries in the world where women’s work participation RATes have fallen sharply — from 29 per cent in 2004-5 to 22 per cent in 2011-12 and to 17 per cent in 2017-18. Both the NDA and UPA governments have found themselves in a hot seat trying to...
More »Why ICMR will not expand coronavirus tests: Not RATional given India size -Karishma Mehrotra & Harikishan Sharma
-The Indian Express ICMR on coronavirus testing: India has conducted roughly 6,000 tests so far, lower than the US (8,000), Japan (9,600), France (12,000), the UK (13,000), and Italy (23,000). South Korea has conducted as many as 2 lakh, which experts see as the reason for their significantly declining numbers. As each country debates own testing stRATegy to combat Covid-19, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has decided to monitor community...
More »How COVID-19 has popularised unfamiliar terms and added new vocabulary -Rekha Dixit
-TheWeek.in COVID-19 has changed many things—from the way we wash our hands to the language we COVID-19 has changed many things—from the way we wash our hands to the language we speak. The pandemic has created a whole new vocabulary, resuscitating some words which were always there, but RATher rusty from disuse, and creating several new terms to explain an unprecedented situation. Please click here to read more. ...
More »The coronavirus battle and its ripple effects on the economy -Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
-Livemint.com Direct handouts and fiscal RATher than monetary action could help tide over the current shock and its potential after waves The Covid-19 pandemic is, above all, a human tragedy. The impact on the economy is at best second in the list of public policy concerns right now. Governments across the world have done well to sacrifice economic activity in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. However, the economic...
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