-AFP Rome: Climate change could sink up to 122 million more people into extreme poverty by 2030, mostly in South Asia and Africa, where small farmers would see their output plummet, the UN warned Monday. In an annual report, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) warned that a worst-case scenario involving high-impact climate change would pound the communities that rely on agriculture for their livelihood. It called for a “broad-based transformation of...
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Why do Jains fare well in higher education while other communities lag? -Lavina Mulchandani
-Hindustan Times For Martina George, 21, putting together Rs 20 lakh to pursue a degree in Medicine in Australia would have been impossible. “Coming from a middle-class background, my family couldn’t pay that amount,” George says. So, instead, her community stepped in. The Bombay Catholic Panchayat and a church from Kerala contributed with a loan and scholarship to meet those expenses. “My school and junior college education in India was almost free...
More »Now, transactions older than 6 years in govt cross hairs in war on black money -Suchetana Ray and Mahua Venkatesh
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The crackdown on black money is not over. With the scheme for voluntary disclosure of unaccounted for wealth now closed, tax officials have launched a drive to unearth hidden incomes and are looking at transactions carried out beyond a six-year ceiling under existing rules, sources said. “The tax department can scan transactions older than six years by invoking clause 197C of the Finance Act, 2016. This clause was introduced...
More »Uniform civil code: Law panel seeks public opinion on anti-women practices -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Law Commission's exercise to formulate a Uniform Civil Code reached a critical phase as it asked the citizens to give their views on ending several religious practices and customs that had been branded anti-women in all three major religions. Sending out a list of 16 questions to gauge public opinion and the direction in which it should proceed, the Commission also asked whether to ban...
More »Janani Suraksha Yojana pays dividends: Study -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu ‘It has reduced socioeconomic disparities in healthcare’ A new study BRIngs in first conclusive evidence of the role played by Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) in reducing ‘socioeconomic disparities’ existing in maternal care. The JSY was launched in 2005 as part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to improve maternal and neonatal health by promotion of institutional deliveries (childbirth in hospitals). According to a working paper by Ruchi Jain (NCAER), Sonalde Desai...
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