-TheWire.in The government is gearing up to prepare the Union Budget 2016-17. The Ministry of Finance is holding pre-budget consultations with various groups for their inputs to make it inclusive and progressive. The Finance Minister, in his opening remarks during the pre-budget meetings with the social sector mentioned that “Inclusive growth is high on the priorities of the present government and the government will take adequate measures to ensure social security...

-The Hindu In order to have a chance of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, we need suitable technologies to make low-carbon transitions in Development right away Now that the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP) meet is long over, countries need to concentrate on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which need to peak soon and go to zero by mid-century if there is to be a chance of preventing average...

-Livemint.com India needs to find better value for money in the health sector According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are three goals a country’s health system must aim for: to improve health, to be responsive to legitimate demands of the population and to ensure no one is at risk of serious financial losses because of ill health. Given this framework, the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) released last week...

-CaravanMagazine.in Thomas Piketty's comments on inequality allude to the same structures that surround Rohith Vemula's tragic death. On 21 January 2016, addressing a packed hall of students and scholars at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, the French economist Thomas Piketty gave a talk in which he discussed the history of taxation, inequality and capital in the twenty-first century. Superficially, Piketty’s discourse appears to be entirely distinct from another recent discourse on inequality—that...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Launching the 'Housing for All' scheme last June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said a house is a "turning point" in the lives of the poor, which leads towards a better life. Now a government study on the benefits of houses for the poor in villages reveals how a pucca (concrete) house elevates status of the family and even plays a key role in marriages. The...