-The Hindu Business Line India’s over-dependence on PRIvate players for vaccines is promoting irrational use and restricting access that leads to unacceptable fatalities The death of an eight-year-old girl, Anju, this August after denial of anti-rabies vaccine at Agra’s Sarojini Naidu Medical College (SNMC) is followed by the admission by Health Ministry that fatality rate for rabies in India is 100 per cent. Although the circumstance of Anju’s death is particularly Kafkaesque...
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Threatened with National Security Act, says UP pollution whistleblower -Alok Pandey
-NDTV The local police inspector allegedly threatened to file charges under the National Security Act against Irshad Khan if he continued to post about pollution on social media. Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): Cities in Uttar Pradesh may be topping the air pollution charts this season, but their police seem to have other PRIorities in mind. A tweet by a differently abled student to draw attention to an instance of stubble burning in...
More »Never the twain shall meet: Why gap between WPI and CPI based inflation widening -Asit Ranjan Mishra
-Livemint.com Why is retail inflation then touching new heights? It is mainly because CPI and WPI are two different sets of indicators with varied compositions While the retail inflation as measured by the Consumer PRIce Index (CPI) touched a 16 month high at 4.62% in October, the wholesale PRIce inflation measured by the Wholesale PRIce Index (WPI) is at the verge of entering the negative territory. The gap between the two is...
More »In six charts: The state of justice in India -Nithya Subramanian
-Scroll.in A poorly-functioning justice system costs India 9% of its GDP each year, according to one estimate. A new report paints a grim picture of the state of India’s justice system. Called the India Justice Report 2019, it ranks states by their performance in four aspects: police, the state judiciary, PRIsons and legal aid. The report is an initiative of Tata Trusts, a philanthropic organisation, undertaken in partnership with several civil society organisations...
More »Four pillars of Indian justice system miss one major force- Women -Shreehari Paliath
-India Spend/ Business Standard The India Justice Report by Tata Trusts released on November 7, 2019, finds women poorly represented, accounting for 7 per cent of the police 10 per cent of PRIson staff At the current rate, nine Indian states will take more than 50 years to increase the share of women in their police forces to 33 per cent, as recommended, a new report estimates. While Madhya Pradesh will take...
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