-The Hindu The urban employment scheme will be on the lines of MGNREGS, to improve livelihood of urban poor. CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will implement an urban employment scheme on the lines of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) at a cost of ₹100 crore to improve the livelihood of urban poor, Minister for Municipal Administration, Urban and Water Supply K.N. Nehru said in the Assembly on Tuesday. “In the...

-The Hindu They also highlight the need to follow COVID-appropriate behaviour and keep complacency at bay. The complacency in people’s behaviour early this year was one of the major reasons for the severe second COVID-19 wave, says experts. Also, with only 15 per cent of the eligible Population fully vaccinated so far, “if the infection spreads uncontrollably, it will give the virus an opportunity to mutate more. These mutations can change its...

-The Telegraph However, experts say this is largely an illusion caused by a distressed Population increasingly taking up low-paid informal jobs A government survey has portrayed an improved unemployment situation between July 2019 and June 2020 on certain parameters, but experts say this is largely an illusion caused by a distressed Population increasingly taking up low-paid informal jobs. Besides, while one standard of measurement in the survey appears to show an improvement, another...

-Newsclick.in The pandemic has again exposed the true nature of capitalism with profit being the primary driver irrespective of the rising inequalities. The contrast between the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives and livelihood of the working-class Population and the soaring profits of big pharma companies in the corresponding period is abhorrent. Please click here to read more.  ...

-Scroll.in A caste census would truly enable India to understand the demographic grammars through which caste is lived and experienced in everyday terms. At the outset, the recently released data from the 2020 United States census is historic for more reasons than one. The census findings on race and ethnicity, which are particularly significant, indicate that for the first time in America’s history, the White Population, in absolute numbers, has declined. Between...