-ThePrint.in RBI's rate hike also among decisions announced last week that might pay political dividends in state polls, but could come with commensurate economic costs, say economists. New Delhi: Is the Modi government prioritising political gain over much-needed economic prudence with an eye on crucial assembly elections coming up in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh this year and more lined up the next? The answer seems to be yes, going by several critical decisions...
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A data scientist shows how South India is outperforming the rest of the country in almost all fields -Nilakantan RS
-Scroll.in An excerpt from ‘South vs North: India’s Great Divide’, by Nilakantan RS. India’s states are unlike each other in the extreme. Haryana, one of India’s richest states, is six times richer than Bihar. In the years shortly after Independence, West Bengal was richer than most other large states in India when MEAsured on a per capita income basis. Maharashtra, Punjab and Gujarat were close behind. In the last six decades, though,...
More »Debal Deb, agrarian scientist and seed conservationist, interviewed by Rebecca George (TheWire.in)
-TheWire.in * Debal Deb began conserving indigenous varieties of rice in the 1990s after realizing that they were losing cultivation ground to other varieties preferred by the Green Revolution. * In an extended interview with The Wire Science, he explained what makes a crop resilient, why farmers should be considered scientists, and the perils of technological solutionism. * Deb also spoke at length about the problems with the Green Revolution and its troubled...
More »After the floods, Bengaluru needs to clean up its act -TR Raghunandan
-The Hindu Everybody has a favourite villain to blame, yet the herd of restive elephants in the room is led by a particularly malevolent matriarch — corruption The floods have abated in Bengaluru. As individuals struggle to clean their houses, the silt on the roads left behind by the receding water — now a fine dust that flies in the air choking us — is a reminder of those difficult times. Various analyses...
More »All women are entitled to safe, legal abortions: Supreme Court -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph SC says MEAning of ‘rape’ must be understood as including marital rape, solely for the purposes of the MTP Act The Supreme Court on Thursday declared that all women, married and unmarried, are entitled to safe and legal abortions till 24 weeks of gestation under India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Act, 2021. The apex court also held that the MEAnings of the expressions “sexual assault” and “rape” under the rules...
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