-Newsclick.in Answers to all the questions you are likely to have about the Minimum Support Price and the controversy surrounding it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hope that his promise to repeal the three new farm laws will have the protesting farmers to promptly fold their tents and leave Delhi has been belied. The farmer unions have instead declared that they are not going to call off their one-year stir until the Union...
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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...
More »A Homogenised Education System Blends Well with Hindutva -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in Globalised capital would like a system that produces identical potential recruits and social support base for itself, which fits the Hindutva agenda, as reflected in NEP’s silence on caste. Education in post-Independence India was supposed to not just provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word). Since the concept of an “Indian nation”, although it existed in a rudimentary form...
More »Arsenic now in wheat, potato — and more than that in drinking water — in rural Bihar -Mohd Imran Khan
-Down to Earth Groundwater contaminated with arsenic is extensively used for irrigation and finds its way into the food chain Arsenic contamination in groundwater has been a growing concern in several parts of the country. Now, the chemical has found its way into the food chain — mainly rice, wheat and potato — a recent study has found. Ashok Kr Ghosh, one of the leading scientists of the team that led the research...
More »Scientific temper as key -Gagandeep Kang
-The Hindu The channels of communication between scientists and society remain limited Indian scientists engaged in science, contributing to the understanding of the natural world and developing approaches and technologies to measure or change outcomes well before the Scientific Revolution that began in Europe in 1543. Whether it was the more than two millennia-old Charaka Samhita or the Jantar Mantars of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, science and technologywere embedded in the...
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