CNBC-TV18 The Supreme Court rejected the Centre's curative plea for enhanced compensation for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy from US-based firm Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). The court rather asked the government to utilise a sum of Rs 50 crore lying with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to satisfy pending claims of victims. The government had sought an additional Rs 7,844 crore from the UCC successor firms to extend...
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Bengal Govternment Cancels Over 14 Lakh Fake NREGA job Cards - Newsclick
A swarm of fake Cards has rampaged the MGNREGA project or 100 days of work in West Bengal. More than 1 million counterfeit job Cards have been caught in West Bengal in the last year, and all of them have been cancelled. The nodal division in charge of the 100-day project under the state’s Panchayat and Rural Development Department revealed. "The exact statistics of the total number of fake job Cards...
More »Agriculture doesn’t get its due in budget - Kedar Vishnu, Ashish Andhale
Deccan Herald Many economists expected a massive allocation for the agricultural sector in the budget, especially after the repeal of three farm law bills. However, the agricultural sector allocation decreased drastically from Rs 1.33 lakh crore in the Union Budget 2022–23 to Rs 1.25 lakh crore in 2023–24. It received only 3.78 per cent of the total budget share in 2021–22; this was reduced to 3.36 per cent in 2022–23 and further...
More »‘The only journalist who Cared’: Memory of scribe killed after refinery report lingers on in Maharashtra - Tanishka Sodhi
Shashikant Warishe was mowed down allegedly by the subject of his last report on a controversial refinery - Newslaundry “He was the only journalist who covered the refinery protests…From the time the protests began until now, he covered everything…other newspapers barely gave coverage to the issue. People here liked him a lot because he was the sole journalist who Cared about their issues.” That’s how Dipak Joshi remembers his friend Shashikant Warishe,...
More »Indian startups fired 10,000 employees from October to January - Prachi Verma
Economic Times With investors tightening their purse strings because of the volatility in the global economy, many unicorns and startups such as Byju’s, Swiggy and Ola have slowed down hiring or even resorted to firing employees. Startups in India fired about 6,000 employees in October-December 2022 and another 4,000 or so in January 2023, the Economic Times reported, citing a report by CIEL Human Resources services. Many unicorns and startups like Byju's, Swiggy...
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