-The Hindu Unless policy action ensures higher demand and growth, india will continue on the path of a K-shaped recovery In recent times, right-leaning economists have been arguing that the Government does not need to do anything with the economy and that it will revive by itself. They call those who disagree with them, doomsday merchants. These economists reason that, like after the Great Depression, the economy rebounded worldwide, and so will...

-Press release by Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA Kisan Swaraj) dated 2 August, 2021 170 individuals and organizations along with the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA Kisan Swaraj) have written to the FSSAI urging it to scrap its plans to make synthetic/ chemical fortification of foods mandatory in india [1]. They cited detrimental and irreversible health and socio-economic impacts such as market shifts in favor of large...

-Scroll.in The pandemic has starkly revealed that india has failed to provide even basic health-care to the majority of its citizens. As the gravest health emergency to overwhelm the globe in a century continues to rage, the unbridled Covid-19 virus has laid bare the abject failure of india’s health system to secure even elementary levels of health-care for its people. Everything fell short disastrously, sometimes catastrophically: hospital beds, doctors, nurses, testing kits, medical...

-Scroll.in It is the second academic year when children have been out of school across india. On a grey afternoon in July, children were out on the streets in Flower Garden, a slum in the Cottonpet area of Bengaluru. A few were playing with toys, others rode their tricycles, and one stood with a racquet in hand laughing uncontrollably at something. Oviya S stood quietly outside her house, her eyebrows drawn together,...

-PTI/ The Hindu Tanveer Ahmad Khan did primary schooling from Government Primary School, Kund, and later from Government High School Waltengoo, officials said Tanveer Ahmad Khan, a farmer’s son from Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, has brought laurels to the Union Territory by securing the second rank in the prestigious indian Economic Services (IES) examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Hailing from the remote Nigeenpora Kund village — about...