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Will India’s digital push in agriculture help farmers or help exploit them? -Karishma Mehrotra

-Scroll.in Agritech is touted as a remedy for the perennial problems ailing the Indian farmer. But what about the challenges it might create? Ramanjaneyulu GV seethes with disdain remembering the times agricultural technology start-ups pitched to him over the past eight years. On offer was the full rainbow of services: market solutions and weather predictions for higher agricultural yield, better quality produce, more Profits. Everything that, in theory, should be welcome. “My opposition...

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Deep Rot Within Facebook/Meta: What can be Done? -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

-Newsclick.in Can legal and regulatory action be taken against Facebook for actively abetting the spread of communal hatred? While a precedent exists in the US, carrying out the same in India will prove a challenge. So, what’s new about whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations about how the top brass of the now-renamed Facebook turned a blind eye to the proliferation of incendiary, hateful and false information on its social media platform, how the...

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Stop chasing Profits at customers' expense, RBI Deputy Governor tells MFIs

-The Hindu The RBI deputy governor reminded the industry that their customers often have lower level of financial awareness and literacy and ‘are often too desperate to turn away any source of credit’. Micro-finance lenders must refrain from chasing Profits and introspect on the ‘negative consequences’ of pushing their borrowers into a debt trap, using harsh recovery practices and harassing customers as this could undo the sector’s progress, a top central banker...

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What the global minimum tax deal means for India -Jagadish Shettigar and Pooja Misra

-Livemint.com The finance ministers of G-20 countries are scheduled to meet today in Washington to discuss the global minimum tax of 15% for multinational enterprises. Mint looks at the global minimum tax and its implications. * What is the global minimum tax? Last week, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) finalized a landmark agreement to subject multinational enterprises (MNEs) to a minimum 15% tax from 2023. A total of 136 countries,...

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The Sundarbans: India must protect the world’s largest delta from a dystopian future, and now -Mukut Biswas

-Down to Earth We must get out of ‘beyond disaster response’ mode in the Sundarbans and take urgent action to save it The world seems to pay attention to the Sundarbans only when catastrophe hits. In the aftermath of both supercyclones Amphan and Yaas that ravaged the Sundarbans, non-Profits, celebrities, clubs and citizens had organised several crowd funding initiatives to get the financial support to distribute relief materials to the cyclone victims. It...

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