-TheWire.in With the Prime Minister's Office insisting that the Fund is not a public authority, an application had sought information about how it received a domain name that was exclusively restricted to government websites. New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) recently restrained the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) from disclosing in response to an application filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI) as to how the PM CARES...
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Govt to roll out unorganized sector database by end of Jul -Prashant K Nanda
-Livemint.com The aim is to enrol nearly 380 mn workers and provide them benefits during times of distress The Union government will roll out the unorganized sector database by the end of July to enrol almost 380 million workers, weeks after the Supreme Court rapped the labour ministry, saying that it showed “unpardonable" apathy towards workers in the informal sector. The development comes more than a year after the mass reverse migration of...
More »OECD-FAO: Global pulses trade to slow as India may boost production by 2030 -G Chandrashekhar
-The Hindu Business Line It observed that world pulses trade grew from 13 ml t to 17 ml t over the past decade The global pulse market that reached a volume of 92 million tons in 2020 - following an annual growth of 3 per cent during the previous decade – is expected to increase by 22 ml t by 2030, says OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 released earlier this week. Almost half of...
More »‘Saddened’ by Father Stan Swamy’s death: US -Sriram Lakshman
-The Hindu U.S. asks all governments to respect the role of human rights activists The Biden administration reacted to the death of Father Stan Swamy in custody in India and called on all governments to respect the role of human rights activists. “We are saddened by the death of Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest & tribal rights activist, who died in Indian custody under charges of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. We...
More »'Pushing Urban Poor to Take Loans is Wrong, Govt Needs to Give Income Support Instead' -Karan Thapar
-TheWire.in Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Jayati Ghosh, says over the last 16 months of the pandemic the government’s handling of the economic crisis has been cruel and incompetent. One of India’s well-known and highly regarded economists has said the government’s refusal to provide income support to the unemployed and poor and instead asking them to take government guaranteed loans which the Chief Economic Advisor has said...
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