-The Telegraph The report was made public at a time large sections of the mainstream media have been accused of toeing the government line or have faced communication hurdles in reporting New delhi: A team of civil society members has recorded testimonies about children who say they were detained and beaten in Kashmir since an ongoing lockdown erected an information blockade in the Valley. The team members said they were denied the use...

-The Indian Express In terms of IITs, the maximum dropouts are seen in IIT-delhi, while at IIMs, most dropouts took place at IIM Indore followed by IIM Kashipur. At IIM-Kashipur, all the dropouts in the past two years were reserved-category students. Out of 2,461 students who dropped out from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the last two years, 371 students were from the Scheduled Caste (SC), 199 from the Scheduled...

-PTI   We will see,' an SC bench told her. New delhi: The Supreme Court asked Kashmir Times Editor Anuradha Bhasin on Tuesday to hand over the memo to its registrar for urgent listing of her plea which seeks removal of restrictions on the media in Jammu and Kashmir after the scrapping of the provisions of Article 370. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra told advocate Vrinda Grover, appearing for Bhasin, “you hand...

-PTI Industry leaders met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New delhi for three hours. Businesses on Thursday asked the government for a stimulus package of over Rs 1 trillion to restart investments and revive the economy. Industry leaders, who met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New delhi for three hours, said the government will soon take action to boost economic growth. "The economy requires a critical intervention by introducing a stimulus package. We have...

-Down to Earth The IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land shines a spotlight on food consumption, modern agricultural practices and desertification where serious action has long been deferred Humanity's agricultural tunnel vision has undermined climate equilibrium on a planetary scale, according to the latest report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on August 8, 2019. While forestry has long been a focus of carbon sink creation, the report...