-Hindustan Times Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020, economies all around the world have learnt that they must balance lives and livelihood to survive. Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020, economies all around the world have learnt that they must balance lives and livelihood to survive. In 2022, India got the first part of this act almost right, due to both the natural trajectory of the pandemic and widespread adult...

-Livemint.com Multiple surveys indicate that we not only missed that goal but our rural economy is in deep distress On 28 February 2016, at a farmer rally in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the government’s intention of doubling the income of farmers by 2022, a year marking 75 years of India’s independence. That it was not just political rhetoric but a real project was evident from the follow-up. An...

-The Hindu It is clear that India does not need a law for forced population control Early in December, two Members of Parliament of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ravi Kishan and Nishikant Dubey, introduced in the Lok Sabha a private members’ Bill aimed at population control in India. Stating that population rise is the most significant reason for India’s slow rate of development, the Bill argues for an immediate need for population...

- Deccan Herald Covid-19 reverse migration of labour added to joblessness A rise in self-employment and unpaid family labour three years into the Covid-19 pandemic even as wage rates fell is an indication that rural distress has risen, the economist Santosh Mehrotra writes. Economic distress was on an upward trajectory even before the Pandemic and the sudden arrival of millions of reverse migrants in 2020 added to the stock of unemployed people...

-The Hindu Business Line The professor said, ‘Ground realities are very different in India and China’; she also called for ‘greater surveillance and sequencing’ It’s a tale of two different populations and their exposure to a virus scripts a country’s response, and the ground realities are very different between India and China, said eminent virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang. Comparing the Covid-19 situation in India and China, over the last three years, Kang told...