-Newsclick.in The sharp and apparently intriguing fall in industrial production in October, and feeble post-COVID recovery, points to a deep-rooted malaise in the Indian economy. There has been much discussion in public about the index of industrial production (IIP) for October 2022 being 4% lower than the index for October 2021; and quite rightly so, since no obvious explanations like a COVID-induced lockdown or even its residual lingering effects can be adduced...
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Rural distress increased sharply as farm wages fell - Santosh Mehrotra
- Deccan Herald COVID-19 reverse migration of labour added to joblessness A rise in self-employment and unpaid family labour three years into the COVID-19 pandemic even as wage rates fell is an indication that rural distress has risen, the economist Santosh Mehrotra writes. Economic distress was on an upward trajectory even before the Pandemic and the sudden arrival of millions of reverse migrants in 2020 added to the stock of unemployed people...
More »BF.7 and XBB: ‘India doing fine, masks hold little value if…’ says Dr Gagandeep Kang -Poulomi Ghosh
-Hindustan Times Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang said India does not need restrictions but precautions but China will see a lot of infections like that of India's second wave. Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang on Friday broke down the current COVID situation in India in comparison with China and said India is doing fine and won't require travel restrictions but China will see 'lots and lots of infections', similar to what India witnessed during...
More »Virologist Gagandeep Kang does not expect another COVID surge in India -PT Jyothi Datta
-The Hindu Business Line The professor said, ‘Ground realities are very different in India and China’; she also called for ‘greater surveillance and sequencing’ It’s a tale of two different populations and their exposure to a virus scripts a country’s response, and the ground realities are very different between India and China, said eminent virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang. Comparing the COVID-19 situation in India and China, over the last three years, Kang told...
More »Climate change induced extreme events are playing havoc with human lives & livelihoods, show latest available data
It is evident from various studies (please click here, here and here to access) that emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) by the developed as well as the developing countries is responsible for climate change, thus causing extreme weather events to occur, with much more ferocity than in the past. The negative impact of climate change may or may not be felt in the geographical location where historically emission has taken...
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