-The Hindu Eurasia Group places India as 5th highest geopolitical risk in 2020 list India has been ranked the 5th highest “Geopolitical Risk” in 2020, according to a list of 10 global risks in the year ahead, compiled by the Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk management consultancy. It said that in its second term, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s “social” policies were affecting India’s economic agenda and foreign policy image. “Prime...
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CAA, NRC may affect status of India's Muslim minority: Congressional Research Service
-PTI The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India’s history, a religious criterion has been added to the country’s naturalization process Washington: The amended Citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government “may affect the status” of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said. The December 18 report also said that...
More »Widening gap: On UN's Emissions Gap Report
-The Hindu India must use green technologies to boost growth and become a climate leader The UN’s Emissions Gap Report comes as a sharp warning to countries preparing to meet in Madrid in December, under the aegis of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, that every year of inaction is jeopardising the main goal of the Paris Agreement: to keep the rise in global temperature over pre-industrial times well below 2°C,...
More »Study of one lakh individuals finds why India's children are anaemic -Aswathi Pacha
-The Hindu The research revealed an inverse relationship between mother's education and incidence of childhood anaemia Last month, during the festive season, an ad campaign urged Indian women to invest in iron-rich food and focus on whether they were anaemic. Around the same time, a Lancet Global Health report noted that 23% of Indian men suffered from anaemia. Adding to these findings, now a paper published in Scientific Reports points out that...
More »Turning the policy focus to child undernutrition -Sunny Jose
-The Hindu India has sustained its progress in reducing stunting and the number of underweight children in the last decade The Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) report, brought out recently by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, assumes salience, especially against two important factors. One, the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI), 2019 ranks India at the 102nd position out of 117 countries. Two, India’s past performance in reducing child undernutrition has...
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