-Scroll.in The government is 'rescuing' unwilling homeless people from the streets and packing them off to shelters. Nobody thought of speaking to the homeless first. Winter is upon us once more. Pollution, smog and plunging temperatures transmute sleeping into a formidable daily challenge for the most dispossessed of city residents – people without homes. The more compassionate among us are stirred briefly each year about the predicament of the homeless forced to...

-The Hindu Business Line The Centre must act now as a year of medical mishaps across the nation comes to an end A little over three months ago, the country watched in horror when news unfolded of the death of a seven-year-old in Delhi from dengue and the subsequent suicide by his young parents. The harrowing experience of getting a simple thing like a bed in a hospital when you need it was...

-Livemint.com Once the entire population is covered, it will be the newborns who will get added and allocated Aadhaar numbers—a continuous process New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) plans to formalize the enrolment process of children under the Aadhaar programme. “We plan to identify clusters of 5-7 schools or anganwadis (day care centres) and set up permanent Aadhaar enrolment centres,” an UIDAI official said, requesting anonymity. With enrolment of adults...

-The Hindu The research lab claims their idea will be more effective that Delhi's proposed odd-even licence-plate policing. A mid-week work-from-home, rather than licence-plate policing, may be the solution to Delhi’s pollution crisis, suggests the policy arm of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India’s largest chain of publicly-funded research labs. The Delhi government's plan to impose restrictions on private car usage, to check air pollution, may be harder to implement and...

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog, established as the government's think tank, could soon become planning body for the Centre and states, similar to its predecessor — the erstwhile Planning Commission. However, the institution would adopt a bottom to top approach as it moves on from five year plans to longterm perspective planning. This would keep it in sync with the government's focus on cooperative federalism. A senior government official told ET that...