-ThePrint.in A hit to India’s rice output could lead to a major policy overhaul as it arrives on the back of a lower wheat harvest. New Delhi: After a severe heat wave in April-May singed India’s wheat crop, leading to a ban on exports, PLAnting of rice, the main rain-fed crop in the ongoing kharif season, has been hit due to patchy rains in several states. Major rice-growing states such as Uttar Pradesh,...
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Whose GDP is it anyway? -Praveen Chakravarty
-The Hindu It is time for political leaders to clamour for an overhaul of India’s economic performance measurement framework In a few weeks, a quarterly ritual will PLAy out in India. The Government will release the first quarter’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth numbers with some chest-thumping about how India is among the fastest-growing economies in the world. Opposition parties will hold press conferences on the same day to counter such bombast...
More »Monsoon 2022: Erratic rains may delay Odisha Kharif crops -Hrusikesh Mohanty
-Down to Earth Dry June led to late paddy transPLAntation; More than half of targetted acreage lie uncultivated A dry June followed by a rainy July might delay Kharif crops in Odisha this monsoon. Farmers in several districts, mainly the western and coastal areas, have yet to start paddy transPLAntation due to erratic rainfall. Through July 23, paddy was sown in 1.27 million hectares out of 3.5 million hectares PLAnned by...
More »Backsliding on climate action -TS Tirumurti
-The Hindu Western nations have started reinterpreting the Paris deal and look to downgrade their commitments Countries in Europe led by Germany, Austria and the Netherlands are cranking up their coal PLAnts again. Coal exports to Europe are surging. Fossil fuels are making a comeback and countries are rejecting the European Union (EU)’s PLAn to reduce natural gas consumption by 15%. Dutch, Polish and other European farmers are protesting against emission cuts...
More »No Census 2021 in 2022 either — govt ‘puts exercise on hold, timeframe not yet decided’ -Ananya Bhardwaj and Shubham Batra
-ThePrint.in Last census was conducted in 2011 & next one was due in 2021, but was delayed due to Covid. Census-related field activities 'postponed till further orders', govt tells Parliament. New Delhi: The census, which was to have been held last year but had to be postponed owing to the Covid pandemic, has been “put on hold” for this year too, sources in the central government told ThePrint Tuesday. What’s more, it...
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