-The Hindu Business Line In 2015, vegetable, milk and cereal inflation was higher than all-India average   While food prices rose at a slower pace across India in 2015, the Poor in the South and certain other parts of the country saw no respite and had to continue spending more for a decent meal. Manipur, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Jammu & Kashmir faced higher food inflation in 2015 compared with 2014,...

-AP New Delhi: Doctors Without Borders has challenged Pfizer’s application for an Indian patent for its pneumonia vaccine so cheaper versions can be available to children in Poor countries and to humanitarian organisations. The medical aid group, also known as Medicins Sans Frontieres, said in a statement late on Friday that it was challenging Pfizer’s patent application to allow Indian manufacturers to make affordable versions of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. If Pfizer is...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Eight states or Union territories, including the Prime Minister's home state Gujarat, have not yet implemented the National Food Security Act, 2013, the Supreme Court was informed yesterday. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli are the other defaulters. The law aims to provide up to 75 per cent of the rural population and up to 50 per cent of the urban population...

-Business Standard Data from past elections suggest that the saffron party gets fewer voters from the Poor From postponing a hike in railway fare to promising doubled farmers' income in the next five years, from the prime minister holding a number of farmers' rallies to renewed focus on augmenting rural growth and enhancing allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme in the Union Budget, the National Democratic Alliance government...

-The Hindu The steps taken towards social democracy are being reversed. What we have now are social insurance policies from above. This subverts the entire project of giving voice to the voiceless. India has paid a heavy price for failing to institutionalise social democracy It is generally agreed that theories of social democracy, in comparison to theories of formal political democracy, take cognisance of background inequalities that hamper the realisation of basic...