-NetworkIdeas.org It is perhaps fitting that the seriousness of the coronavirus threat hit most of the Western world around the Ides of March, the traditional day of reckoning of outstanding debts in Ancient Rome. The previous week had been a veritable roller coaster ride. The World Health Organization (WHO) finally declared the contagion a pandemic, governments scrambled to respond, the virus dominated the news cycle as well as the plethora of...
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Women Write to CMs, Seek Delinking of NPR from Census 2021
-Newsclick.in About 1,000 women lawyers, academics and organisations have sent letters to all chief ministers, ahead of the updation process likely to begin on April 1. New Delhi: About 1,000 women lawyers, academics, anganwadi workers and organisations from 20 states have written letters to all chief ministers of the country, flagging to them the ‘grave danger’ to women due to linking the updation of NPR with the house listing of Census 2021. Releasing...
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 »Potentially Hazardous Changes Proposed under CSR Rules -Noshir H Dadrawala
-MoneyLife.in A news item published in the Business Standard on “New draft rules set to clamp down on CSR activities through trusts” has caused mass panic and pandemonium since morning. While it is good to be vigilant and leave no scope for ambiguity and address any vagueness in the language of the proposed new Rules (while we still can), let’s not get unduly alarmed either. There is time and adequate scope...
More »WPI inflation eases to 2.26% in Feb
-PTI/ The Hindu Wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation softened to 2.26% in February on the back of cheaper food items and vegetables, the government data showed on Monday. In January, the WPI inflation stood at 3.1% and in the year-ago same period it was at 2.93%, as per the data from the commerce and industry ministry. Please click here to read more. ...
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