-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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Convergence of agrarian discontent in South Asia -Ahilan Kadirgamar and Hashim bin Rashid
-The Hindu With protests becoming catalysts for anti-authoritarian struggle, the air is ripe for new visions of rural emancipation Those familiar with the systematic attack on agriculture in South Asia over the last decades will not be surprised at the ongoing farmers’ protests in India. It could have been Pakistan, where farmers protesting for support prices were beaten up and arrested in Lahore only a month ago, or Sri Lanka, where shortages...
More »Rise in teenage pregnancy, higher anaemia rate in women: NFHS-5 phase data
-The Hindu It indicates an increase in average out of pocket expenditure (OOPE) per delivery in public health facilities in some States. The 5th National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5) data for 17 States and 5 Union Territories released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has indicated a stark disparity in access to the Internet by men, in contrast to women in a number of States. In Karnataka and Bihar, for...
More »More migrants returning to Bangladesh, shows BSF data -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu Till December this year, 3,173 persons were caught leaving against 1,115 entering In the past four years, nearly twice the number of illegal Bangladeshi migrants were caught leaving the country compared to those coming in illegally, according to data available with the Border Security Force (BSF) and the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) shows. Till December 14 this year, as many as 3,173 illegal migrants were apprehended by the BSF when...
More »Govt citing lack of fiscal space for reluctance to provide adequate support to economy is odd -Jahangir Aziz
-The Indian Express What needs to be ensured is that the recovery is not hamstrung by damaged household and SME balance sheets because of the extended loss of wages and incomes. This requires extensive income support now. Sometimes we miss the forest for the trees, and at other times the trees themselves become the story. That seems to be the case with India’s 3Q20 GDP print. Some have exulted over headline growth printing...
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