-The Indian Express While the Sanghatana has supported the farm laws, it has also demanded that the ban on the export of onions be removed forthwith — and has threatened to pelt BJP MPs with onion bulbs if the central government did not accede to the demand. On Monday, some farmers’ unions met Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to express support for the three farm laws against which thousands of farmers are...
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New evidence on child nutrition calls for radical expansion of child development services -Jean Dreze
-The Indian Express If India’s overwhelming goal is to become a $5 trillion economy within a few years, there is no reason to pay attention to children. But if it is development in the full sense of the term, then child development is paramount. Leaving aside two or three countries like Niger and Yemen, India has the highest proportion of underweight children in the world: a full 36 per cent according to...
More »If India has handled Covid-19 so well, why has the Centre cancelled Parliament’s Winter Session? -Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
-Scroll.in What better place to discuss proposed amendments to the farm laws that have sparked massive protests than the legislature? Explain this combination of claims from the Centre over the past few days: India has done “very well” at containing Covid-19, far better than many other nations. The Delhi government in pARTicular was congratulated for its efforts. Meanwhile, the invite has gone out to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be the chief...
More »India slips two spot to rank 131 in UN’s human development index
-The Indian Express Human Development Index is the measure of a nation's health, education, and standards of living. India's HDI value for 2019 is 0.645 placing the country in the medium human development category. India slipped two spots to rank 131 among 189 countries in the 2020 human development index, a report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said. Human Development Index is the measure of a nation’s health, education,...
More »Firing a warning shot across big tech’s bows -Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Lawsuits and regulatory moves in the West suggest that their easy, unchecked expansion may be coming to an end It was a long time coming, but the day of reckoning for the big digital companies may finally have arrived. Despite the growing monopoly power of big tech and their use of anti-competitive practices, earlier attempts to regulate them (such as an attempt by the U.S. DepARTment of Justice in 1998...
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