-The Telegraph The Green Revolution revisited The Covid-19 crisis poses many challenges for India. One front that is almost taken for granted. Today, when the world faces the threat of a virus, India as of late APRIl 2020 could declare a food grain reserve of 73.8 million tonnes. Anyone with doubts about gains should take a look at sub-Saharan Africa, many of whose nations are still reliant on food aid from the...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 24734
Dr Kafeel Khan And The Story Of Another Epidemic -Mrudula Bhavani
-Outlook India The expertise the imPRIsoned doctor offered to the fight against COVID-19 comes from a self-driven struggle with encephalitis, which kills thousands every year The Supreme Court directed on March 23 that all PRIsoners, under trial or convicted and jailed for less than seven years, be considered for release on a six-week parole, in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. On March 28, Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan, twice-suspended paediatrician from Gorakhpur...
More »Coronavirus tracker Aarogya Setu app gets 2 out of 5 on MIT's tracker index
-Business Today India's Aarogya Setu app, which has over 9 crore users as of now, has scored positive on the timely deletion of user data and collection of only useful data criteria, but it failed to score on voluntary use, limitations of data usage, and transparency criteria The Modi government's Aarogya Setu app, developed to track COVID-19 infected cases, has scored negative on three of five data-PRIvacy and transparency indicators for coronavirus-tracking...
More »Job Losses Soar as Modi Govt Continues to Grope in the Dark -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in In APRIl alone, over 12 crore jobs were estimated to have been lost, and unemployment is at over 27% in the beginning of May. After the loss of nearly 80 lakh jobs in March, most of them in the last week after the countrywide lockdown was suddenly announced by PRIme Minister Narendra Modi on March 24, latest data collected by CMIE or Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy through their periodic sample...
More »Centre Preps "Image Correction" Exercise To Blunt Criticism Over Migrants -Sanket Upadhyay
-NDTV The booklet containing what the centre has done for people, especially migrants, will be widely circulated, the source said, adding the massive publicity campaign will be the main thrust of the entire exercise. New Delhi: The centre will launch an "image correction" exercise to counter what is seen as not doing enough to help stranded and hungry migrant workers amid the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, sources have said. The centre...
More »
