-Scroll.in The policy, which wreaked havoc on the lives of the poor, mistakenly conflated cash with black money. Was demonetisation a good idea, badly implemented? I have heard this from the supporters of the regime but, to my surprise, even friends who are otherwise critical believe this to be true. The government’s stated aim for denotifying high-value currency notes with a four-hour deadline on November 8, 2016, was to land a body blow...
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‘Jai Bhim’ director Tha Se Gnanavel: ‘More brutal than lock-up torture is the silence of society’ -Nandini Ramnath
-Scroll.in The Suriya-led legal drama is based on an actual incident of police brutality in Tamil Nadu. Tha Se Gnanavel’s phone has been ringing non-stop ever since his movie Jai Bhim started streaming on Amazon Prime Video on November 2. “I thought people would say this is a good film, but the response has been far more than expected,” Gnanavel told Scroll.in. “The film has now has led to a discussion. In...
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-The Hindu Coal stock crunch at thermal plants India recorded a Power supply shortage of 1,201 million units in October 2021 — the highest in 5.5 years — due to a crunch in coal stocks available with thermal plants. The shortage was mostly restricted to Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab and Rajasthan. In October, Gujarat recorded a Power shortage of 215 million units, the highest for any month in more than a decade. With a...
More »India’s Coal Crisis -CP Chandrasekhar
-NetworkIdeas.org In recent weeks the media have featured stories bordering on the alarmist about a coal shortage in India. Coal inventories with thermal Power plants had fallen to levels at which major country-wide Power outages seemed inevitable. Fortunately, that has not (as yet) materialized, but it is indeed true that coal inventories with the Power producers did collapse from the equivalent of around 30 days requirement to that for a couple...
More »India staying out of major climate pledges at COP26: Officials argue varied reasons -Subhayan Chakraborty
-MoneyControl.com While India has been one of the earliest and key signatories of multiple global environmental agreements, it has given a wide berth to three major initiatives. Officials tell Moneycontrol why that's been the case. Despite surprising large segments of the global community and climate experts by announcing major commitments, India has till now stayed away from all the major pledges at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Early on Thursday, the UK...
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