-The Hindu Parliamentary panel pushes for it in all government schools in coming academic year The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education has recommended that all government schools stART providing free breakfast in the coming academic year, as pART of an expansion of the mid-day meal scheme envisaged by the National Education Policy. However, Education Ministry officials say a severe funding crunch is likely to delay the initiative. Free breakfasts would involve an additional...
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New IT rules -- Kerala High Court restrains Centre
-The Hindu Online legal news portal Live Law challenges regulations. The Kerala High Court on March 10 restrained the Centre from taking coercive action against Live Law Media Private Ltd., which owns a legal news portal, for any non-compliance with PART III of the new IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The court issued notice to the Centre on a petition filed by the firm challenging the rules regulating...
More »Indian economy to be hardest hit by Covid-19 despite recovery, predicts new OECD report -Shoaib Daniyal
-Scroll.in The high growth in 2021 cannot undo the damage caused by the country’s harsh lockdown. India will be among the large economies most severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions to combat it, a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development predicts. Data published as pART of the OECD Economic Outlook, Interim Report March 2021 on Tuesday forecasts that the real GDP value of India’s economy...
More »Make room for women in the new normal -Sonalde Desai
-The Indian Express The pandemic may have limited our ability to connect with the external world, but for several Indian women, isolation isn’t unfamiliar or new When we tell our children and grandchildren about 2020, we will talk about a time when we shut ourselves in our homes to keep the world and the pandemic out. Our only contact with friends and relatives was via the telephone, and we only ventured out...
More »Parliament proceedings -- Banks wrote off ₹1.15 lakh cr. in nine months of FY21: Anurag Thakur
-The Hindu “As per RBI data, scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) have written off loans of ₹2,36,265 crore, ₹2,34,170 crore and ₹1,15,038 crore during FY2018-19, FY2019-20 and the first three-quARTers of FY2020-21 respectively,” the Minister said. Banks have written off bad loans to the tune of ₹1.15 lakh crore in the first three-quARTers of the current fiscal, the Lok Sabha was informed on March 8. As per RBI guidelines and policy approved by bank...
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