-The Hindu 2 health workers symptomatic, 188 contacts isolated KOZHIKODE: After a gap of over three years, a case of the zoonotic Nipah virus infection was reported in Kozhikode district of Kerala on Sunday morning, with the death of a 12-year-old boy from Pazhoor, near Chathamangalam, at a private hospital. State Health Minister Veena George told the media that a contact list of 188 persons, a majority of them healthcare workers, had been...

-IndiaToday.in Thousands of farmers are on their way to Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar where the Samyukta Kisan Morcha will be holding a massive 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' on Sunday. Muzaffarnagar: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called a massive 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar on Sunday where the farmers' body is slated to launch 'Mission Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand' to give a boost to their protest against Centre's farm laws. Important announcements related to the kisan morcha's...

-Science.thewire.in * In the near-term, the IPCC report reaffirms that India can no longer afford to ignore the very real developmental challenge that climate change poses at home. * In a significant development, the Government’s statement contains a clear and welcome acknowledgement of the relationship between climate change and extreme events. * To embark on a low-carbon development pathway, however, India will need an institutional architecture with a more strategic bent. “It is unequivocal...

-Newsclick.in The Government’s brazen class bias is crystal clear, as it gives away national assets built with public money to its favourite capitalists, together with tax breaks. Junior Minister for Rural Development in the Central Government, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, ruled out in Parliament any increase in the amount of monthly pension given by the Centre to the elderly under the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP). The amount currently being given to each...

-TheWire.in The current, complex payments systems employed by the Government must give way to simple, decentralised systems to ensure greater accountability as empower local governing bodies. The Union Government’s approach to payments under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has been a ridiculous joke, played on the workers who wait for their hard-earned money for a long time. Many do not get their payments at all, owing to various local malpractices....