-PTI/ Business Standard The third pre-testing of the five surveys would be conducted in next ten days and then the studies would begin across the country by the Labour Bureau The Labour Bureau is all set to launch its five major surveys, including on migrant and domestic workers, across the country by April 1 as two out of three mandated pre-testings of the studies yielded "encouraging and positive results". The third pre-testing of...
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Indian workers work longest, earn the least -Rukmini S
-Livemint.com India’s new draft labour codes, which envisage a shorter work week, may offer some flexibility to a small section of the country’s workforce. But it is not going to reduce working hours in a country that has among the longest working hours in the world For white collar workers who have made an easy transition to working from home, the prospect of a four-day work week, as proposed by India’s new...
More »Hate speech, now ‘fear speech’ -- study finds new way Indians on WhatsApp ‘target minorities’ -Regina Mihindukulasuriya
-ThePrint.in Study by IIT-Kharagpur and MIT Institute of Data, Systems and Society, US, assessed over 5,000 public, political WhatsApp groups, found emojis are a common feature in such posts. New Delhi: It’s not as toxic in language, doesn’t employ derogatory keywords, and might be the new tool of choice for social media users as they look to buck hate speech laws. Introducing “fear speech”, a subtle form of hate speech that often...
More »Uttarakhand: Researchers arrive to inspect artificial lake over Rishiganga
-PTI/ The Indian Express The team led by USAC Director MPS Bisht and consisting of four scientists each from the Geological Survey of India and Uttarakhand Space Application Centre will try to reach the lake on foot by Saturday evening or Sunday. Raini: A team of researchers arrived in Pang village on Saturday to inspect the artificial lake formed over Rishiganga after the recent avalanche and gauge how big a threat it...
More »Money vs. happiness -Raghav Gaiha and Veena S Kulkarni
-The Hindu Subjective well-being and income are intricately linked The question whether the rich are more satisfied with their lives is often taken for granted, even though surveys, like the Gallup World Poll, show that the relationship between subjective well-being and income is often weak, except in low-income countries in Africa and South Asia. Researcher Daniel Kahneman and his collaborators, for example, report that the correlation between household income and reported life...
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