-India Spend Dungarpur: Hunger and malnutrition are likely to become more acute among young children and pregnant and lactating women in Rajasthan’s tribal belt as community health workers, who deliver public nutrition schemes, struggle with the food shortages caused by the ongoing lockdown, our field report shows. The delivery of food and ration kits for vulnerable social groups has also been impacted by the extra load of COVID-19 duties assigned to the...
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Coronavirus numbers explained: Delhi not only state non-transparent with tally -Amitabh Sinha
-The Indian Express India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases Tracker: Almost every other state has seemed reluctant in sharing information, especially those relating to the dead. Only THRee states, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, routinely provide details of death cases in their states. India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases: For the second consecutive day, Delhi reported more than 1,000 new cases on Friday. It also added 82 deaths to its tally, only 13 of whom had...
More »How colonial India fought locust attacks -- and what we could learn from those tactics -Pallavi Das & Vineet K Giri
-Scroll.in One simple strategy: protect birds that eat the predatory insects. As India struggles to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, it faces a new challenge. Several parts of the country have experienced heavy infestations of locusts – an insect that devours crops and foliage, often leaving devastation in its wake. If there’s a silver lining to this cloud, it is that India has two centuries of experience in dealing with locust swarms. India’s Locust...
More »GDP Growth Rate Slump: Another Blow to Modi Govt's Economic Growth Story -AK Bhattacharya
-TheWire.in/ Business Standard The rate of growth for India’s GDP has just about halved in just THRee years. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s economic growth story has suffered yet another huge knock. Along with that has come the official admission that the government’s fiscal deficit last year was as large as 4.6% of gross domestic product (GDP), much wider than the 3.8%provided in the Budget presented in February earlier this year. On...
More »Hunger Grows as India’s Lockdown Kills Jobs: Results of a Survey from 12 States -Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole, Rosa Abraham, Surbhi Kesar and Paaritosh Nath
-TheIndiaForum.in The lockdown has devastated livelihoods at unprecedented levels, causing widespread job losses and hunger. The measures so far will not solve the crisis. India should universalise the PDS, expand cash transfers, and create a national job guarantee scheme. The Covid-19 global pandemic and its associated containment measures have taken a heavy toll on economies and societies worldwide. In India, the national lockdown, imposed on 24 March and subsequently extended THRee times...
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