-The Hindu 14 parameters include mother tongue, place of birth of parents and last place of residence. The latest form of the National Population Register (NPR) appears to have retained contentious questions such as “mother tongue, place of birth of father and mother and last place of residence”, according to a document compiled by a committee under the Registrar General of India and shared with District Census officers. Though NPR was first compiled...

-TheWire.in The biggest tormentor of the people in India is paradoxically the Indian state itself. We are living in times that are both frightening and strange. They are frightening because the Indian society is being driven by a binary system. Either you conform to the majoritarian or official narrative, or you are branded a traitor of some sort – jihadi, urban Naxal, or ISI agent who must be jailed or tormented by...

-Livemint.com Value-addition per worker needs to rise sharply in several fields for the country to enhance prosperity and reduce inequality It is known that productivity is the key to economic prosperity. How do we raise the productivity of service workers? This is one of the biggest challenges that India faces which hasn’t yet received much attention. Why is this important? First, low and medium-productivity service sectors (services except real estate, business and professional...

-The Hindu Removal of ‘illegal hawkers’ at Connaught Place has pushed them into distress The removal of “illegal” hawkers and street vendors from Connaught Place market following an order from the Delhi High Court has left many worried about their future. While some attempt to carry out their businesses around Connaught Place, most say they “have nowhere else to go”. According to the Delhi Street Hawkers Survey conducted by the government, 73,716 hawkers...

-NDTV.com Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has admitted that there is a slight shortage of DAP and blamed international prices. Bhopal: Long queues and loud protests by farmers can be seen across Madhya Pradesh as the acute shortage of fertilisers in the peak harvesting season drags on. In Ashok Nagar, about 190 km from state capital Bhopal, hundreds of farmers have been sleeping outside the Mungaoli block headquarters so that they can...