-PTI/ Newsclick.in Percentage of men owning phones in India is as high as 61% while only 31% of women owned phones in 2021. New Delhi: The percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61% while only 31% of women-owned phones in 2021, according to a new report, which claimed that India's growing inequalities based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space. Oxfam...
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Can India have ‘Project Great Indian Bustard’, apex court asks during hearing on GIB deaths -Shuchita Jha
-Down to Earth A total of seven Great Indian Bustards have died in 2022 due to electrocution A Supreme Court (SC) bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud asked the Union government December 1, 2022, if a ‘Project Bustard’ could be launched on the lines of ‘Project Tiger’. The bench was hearing petitions throwing light on the critical situation of Great Indian Bustards (GIB) and their deaths due to electrocution from...
More »1.5°C threshold likely to be breached by 2030: Experts -Jayashree Nandi
-Hindustan Times IPCC co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner said only a massive mobilisation towards transformation of energy use, industry, infrastructure, society and how we deal with ecosystems will keep that LIMit within reach New Delhi: The 1.5 degree C threshold for global warming, the redline as far as the cLIMate crisis is concerned, may be breached as early as the end of the current decade, two Intergovernmental Panel on CLIMate Change’s co-chairs said. Hans-Otto Pörtner,...
More »Is EPFO data right metric to show job creation? No, say experts citing its data LIMitations -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-ThePrint.in Wage ceiling, mobility of lower-end workers, smaller establishments willfully avoiding registrations among factors that make EPF data flawed indicator, they assert New Delhi: While the government often cites monthly data from the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) — the latest edition of which was released on Friday — to show that formal sector employment is growing in India, economists say that the data is flawed, prone to inflation and captures only...
More »India’s Entry to Qatar -Moumita Chaudhuri
-The Telegraph The Telegraph brings you the story of how — and why — Calcutta is putting meat on the World Cup table Ahead of the World Cup this year, 1.2 metric tonnes (one tonne equals 1,000 kilos) of mutton made its way to Qatar from the Haringhata meat plant in Nadia district of Bengal. The plant and the brand take their name from a small town in Nadia. To get back to...
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