-Down to Earth The Japanese government’s own figures reveal this, the organisation says in a report to mark 10 years of the disaster Just 15 per cent of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant’s core area in Japan has been decontaminated a decade after it suffered a catastrophic triple reactor meltdown March 11, 2011, according to a report by non-Profit Greenpeace International. An overall average of 15 per cent of the Special Decontamination Area...
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GDP growth is being driven by larger firms. Smaller ones continue to suffer, need policy attention -Saugata Bhattacharya
-The Indian Express Policy coordination between the Centre and states will be crucial for implementing this ambitious reform agenda. The National Statistical Office will release the second advance GDP estimates for 2020-21 at the end of February. The first advance estimate had, in early January, forecasted a contraction of 7.7 per cent in 2020-21. This was due largely to an expected, sharp contraction in both industry and services. The second advance estimates...
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-Down to Earth The back of the Indian farmour is against the wall amid rising costs of inputs, climate change-induced risks and faulty market mechanisms More than 28 farmers and farm labourers die by suicide in India every day, according to the 2021 State of India’s Environment (SoE) report — an annual brought out by Down To Earth in association with Delhi-based non-Profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The SoE report highlighted...
More »Supreme Court Notice To Centre Over Probe Agency Chief's Tenure Change -A Vaidyanathan
-NDTV.com A non-Profit, Common Cause, had challenged the retrospective change in the appointment of Enforcement Directorate director Sanjay Kumar Mishra New Delhi: The centre, Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) will have to reply to a Supreme Court notice over retrospective change in the appointment of ED director Sanjay Kumar Mishra. A non-Profit, Common Cause, had challenged the extension of Mr Mishra from two to three years. Lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who...
More »In the Twitter-govt faceoff, an undemocratic provision of law is being applied to its maximum threshold -Apar Gupta
-The Indian Express It leaves a sense of confusion and wonder about why our own government formed under the Constitution may be failing to fulfil its obligations when strangers who trade in our data for Profit are seemingly more eager. The growing digitisation of Indian society is reflective in the ongoing protests by farmers. Battles are being waged every day in gram sabhas and protest sites as well on social media. Each...
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