-Scroll.in The increasing variability of water can weigh heavily on communities and represents a significant risk facing Indian farms, FIRms, and families. Rain, rivers, coasts, and seas have shaped our societies from the earliest days. Tales from classical antiquity to the Abrahamic religions to ancient Mesopotamia speak of how water changed the course of history. In India, the “crucible of the monsoon,” the annual drama of the moisture-carrying winds that bring 80% of...
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Supreme Court asks Union Home Ministry to collect reports from eight States on ‘attacks on Christians’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Bench clarifies it has not formed any opinion on the veracity of the allegations by petitioners The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to obtain from eight States information about the registration of FIRs, status of investigation, arrests and chargesheets filed in incidents petitioners allege to be attacks targeting the Christian community and institutions. The eight States in question are Bihar, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Karnataka,...
More »India’s urban unemployment rate improves across genders, age groups to best-ever level: Survey -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times The quarterly bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey also suggests that at least some of this improvement is because of a higher than usual engagement in poor quality jobs in the quarter ending June 2022 New Delhi: After recovering to pre-pandemic levels in the quarter ending March 2022, India’s urban unemployment rate improved across genders and age groups to its best-ever level in the quarter ending June 2022, according...
More »The concerns around Aadhaar-Voter ID linkage -Trishee Goyal
-The Hindu * Why is the Election Commission keen on voters linking their Aadhaar with voter IDs? The story so far: Reports have surfaced online of instances where block level officers have asked individuals to link their Aadhaar with their Voter IDs, failing which their Voter IDs could be cancelled. This comes in the aftermath of the Election Commission’s (EC) campaign to promote the linkage of Voter ID and Aadhaar that began...
More »Fuelling problems: India’s poor are being forced to return to unclean cooking fuels; here’s why -Seema Prasad
-Down to Earth With LPG prices crossing the Rs 1,000-mark, the poor now have to make unfair choices about their basic standard of life Farm labourer Mahadesha from Karnataka, groundnut farmer R Chandrashekharreddy from Andhra Pradesh, homemaker Geeta from Haryana and slum dweller Naresh from Ghaziabad are facing the same dilemma. The cost of a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder has crossed over Rs 1,000 on the back of regular price revisions...
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