-The Hindu Disturbing a federal system that protects the complexity of human identities could pave the way for conflict It is sometimes claimed that once ordinary people benefit from economic development, they automatically set aside issues related to their identity. Such a view was found not only in materialist theories that gave explanatory primacy in human life to economic factors but also among leaders of social and political movements. Nehru, for instance,...
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UNHRC asks India to end lockdown in J&K -Kallol Bhattacharjee
-The Hindu Michelle Bachelet also asked India to ensure that the National Register of Citizens verification in Assam does not leave the people Stateless Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council urged India on Monday to end the lockdown in Kashmir and restore basic communications services. Delivering the Opening Statement, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet noted the situation in Kashmir and Assam, where lakhs have been excluded from the National...
More »Getting the economy to turn around -Ajay Shankar
-The Hindu Business Line Lowering the exchange rate to boost exports, a grant-based stimulus for auto sector and reviving stalled power projects will help The slowdown in the Indian economy is far steeper than what most observers had expected. The government has announced a set of measures for revival. It has also indicated that more are in the pipeline. For this to have become necessary within weeks of the presentation of the...
More »Top farm scientists body rejects zero budget natural farming -Harish Damodaran and PARThasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express This comes even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the 14th Conference of PARTies to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification on Monday, mentioned that “we are focusing on ZBNF”. India’s premier academic body of agricultural scientists has hit out at Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), terming it as an “unproven” technology bringing no incremental value gain to either farmers or consumers. “The government should not needlessly invest capital...
More »In Haryana, workers laid off from the automobile sector struggle to find new opportunities -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Some of these workers had found temporary jobs with political pARTies for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections. Rahul Kumar Sharma, 22, worked in the welding depARTment of an auto-component company in Manesar, Haryana, fixing nuts and bolts that would be later assembled to form a car door. He had joined the company in June 2017. The work hours were gruelling. For a nine-hour shift, he earned a monthly salary of Rs 9,765...
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