-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Waste burning near Brahma Apartments in Dwarka’s Sector 7 has necessitated the summoning of the fire brigade several times. But the highly polluting activity refuses to be curbed. Despite the stringent fines imposed by National Green Tribunal, Delhiites refuse to mend their ways and continue to burn leaves and waste. Dwarka residents will gather at the offending spot on Saturday morning to highlight the repercussions...

-PTI Government says there is no threat of discontinuation of mobile numbers issued using Aadhaar. New Delhi: Mobile service customers who want to get their Aadhaar details removed from the records of telecom operators would need to provide alternative verification documents, industry body COAI said on October 18. The Cellular Operators Association of India, as also directed by the Department of Telecom, said that the services will not be disconnected during the change...

-The Telegraph The obsession with economic growth and the stock market hides other important facts about the condition of the economy Every time quarterly or monthly reports of the Indian economy are announced there is a reaction in the media. If the results are worse than the previous ones, then impending doom is forecast. If the results are better than the previous ones, there is unbridled optimism about future economic prospects. Both...

-Newsclick.in An indifferent Modi government promises to eliminate hunger not before 2030. Celebrations were barely over in New Delhi on the news that the 2017-18 agricultural year had yielded a record harvest of both foodgrains (284.83 million tonnes) and fruits and vegetables (307 million tonnes) when another bit of news trickled in last week, largely ignored by the government. This was that India stood at rank 103 in the Global Hunger Index...

-The Hindu The draft report of the Murli Manohar Joshi-led Estimates Committee on “measuring growth, employment and income” asks the government on how it can address the critical issue of unemployment if it does not have “real time” and “holistic” data. A report by a parliamentary panel headed by BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi, questioning the reliability of employment data collected by the government, has been stalled following protests by other BJP...