-The Hindu State rejects Centre’s options; to work for consensus among States. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has rejected the two options for Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation mooted by the Centre at the 41st GST Council meeting earlier this week. Instead the State has asked the Centre to take a loan and provide compensation to the States. “We have decided to inform the Centre in writing that the State cannot agree to the two...
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How a boat journey in the mid-1960s started Kerala’s Gulf Boom -Gita Aravamudan
-TheNewsMinute.com Kerala has become a state fueled by a remittance economy, but the origins of this, dates back to several decades. In the summer of 1980, I visited Kerala’s Varkala in Thiruvanathapuram for the first time. It was the peak of the first Gulf boom. The media was full of stories on the ones who had made it big. But I was doing an article on the petrodollar paupers — the ignored...
More »20 trained nurses dead, 509 infected, says TNAI -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal with most number of cases among staff nurses Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal have the maximum number of COVID positive staff nurses in the country and also the highest fatality rate, the Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) said on Thursday. TNAI, the largest nursing association in the country, released data for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, indicating that 509 nursing staff were...
More »Beatrice Jauregui, criminology and sociolegal studies scholar, interviewed by Seema Chishti (TheWire.in)
-TheWire.in Journalist Seema Chishti interviews the criminology and sociolegal studies scholar about Vikas Dubey's links with the UP police, the Delhi police's investigation of the riots and the custodial death of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu. Beatrice Jauregui is associate professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is most recently the author of Provisional Authority – Police. Order and Security in India....
More »Kerala landslide death toll climbs to 49, NDRF teams resume rescue work
-Hindustan Times On Sunday too, rains lashed many parts of Kerala amid weather forecasts of extremely heavy rainfall in six districts. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for extremely heavy rainfall in Kasaragod, Kannur, Wayanad, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Alappuzha districts. The death toll in the landslide at a tea estate in Rajamalai in Idukki district of Kerala rose to 49 on Monday after six more bodies were recovered,...
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