-TheWire.in One report suggests that Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh are also underreporting deaths due to COVID-19 Bengaluru: In a strange turn of events, the Gujarat state government informed the Supreme Court on January 16 that it has approved 68,370 claims for ex gratia for COVID-19 victims – while the state’s official cumulative death toll was only 10,094 until then. According to Times of India, the state wrote in its compliance report...
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A realpolitik appraisal of the ‘Mandal-Kamandal’ fight in UP -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times The BJP, on the other hand, has always claimed that Mandal-based parties such as the SP have only helped their own causes (for instance, the Yadavs in both Bihar and UP) in the name of social emancipation after capturing power. The Uttar Pradesh elections seem to be resurrecting the past memories of Mandal versus Kamandal contest only at the level of polemics. After chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
More »Forest Survey Report 2021: India’s mountainous states, already facing climate change, lose forest cover -Vivek Mishra
-Down to Earth Jammu and Kashmir has lost very dense forests, while the North East is top in terms of total forest area loss There has been an increase in forest loss in India’s mountainous states along its Himalayan frontier, which are already in the throes of climate change, according to the latest report by the Forest Survey of India (FSI). India’s State of Forest Report is a biennial publication. The report for...
More »Misleading Picture of Household Wealth -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line/ NetworkIdeas.org In recent years, when the economy as a whole performed poorly, reports on how old and new businesspersons accumulated huge volumes of wealth in short timespans have been commonplace. There is also evidence that conspicuous consumption is on the rise. This has led observers to conclude that income and wealth inequality in India has increased. Hard evidence on the extent of that increase is difficult to...
More »COVID crisis: Maharashtra brings back lockdown like curbs; shuts down educational institutions
-PTI/ The New Indian Express Private offices have also been asked to rationalize the number of employees coming to work by allowing work from home and staggering working hours. MUMBAI: Tightening restrictions in the face of surging COVID-19 cases, the Maharashtra Government on Saturday prohibited movement in public in groups of five or more from 5 in the morning to 11 at night, effective January 10 midnight. Further, no movement will be allowed...
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