-The Hindu Government has misunderstood ‘undernourishment’, says Welthungerhilfe, which co-published the Global Hunger Index. German non-profit Welthungerhilfe (WHH) that co-published the Global Hunger Index (GHI) this year rubbished the Government's allegation on Saturday that its Ranking of India as among the 16 worst countries was based on an opinion poll. It also pointed out that the Government was wrong to confuse ‘undernourishment’ with “undernutrition”. Following the launch of the GHI on Thursday which...
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India's rank in Global Hunger Index falls from 94th in 2020 to 101st in 2021, Pakistan and Bangladesh fare better
-IndiaToday.in The Global Hunger Index 2021 has ranked India 101st out of 116 countries. In 2020, India was ranked 94th out of 107 countries. As per the 2021 Rankings, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have fared better than India. The 2021 report, prepared by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe, said the level of hunger in India is 'alarming'. INDIA'S GHI SCORE India's Global Hunger Index (GHI) score has fallen...
More »The end of the doing business Rankings -R Nagaraj
-The Hindu The Ease of Doing Business index was plagued with problems and deserves to be scrapped On September 16, the World Bank Group scrapped its flagship publication, the ‘Doing Business’ report. This report publishes the influential annual Ranking of countries on the Ease of Doing Business (EDB) index. The Group acted on its commissioned study to examine the ethical issues flagged in preparing the 2018 and 2020 editions of the EDB...
More »JNU holds on to second spot in govt Ranking of universities -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has topped the education ministry’s Ranking under the National Institutional Ranking Framework this year JNU has held on to the second spot in the government’s Ranking of universities this year while the Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University have improved their places despite all three facing campus turmoil and government attempts to dilute their character. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has topped the...
More »Will we learn anything from the mass pyres and floating bodies? -Harsh Mander
-Scroll.in The pandemic has starkly revealed that India has failed to provide even basic health-care to the majority of its citizens. As the gravest health emergency to overwhelm the globe in a century continues to rage, the unbridled Covid-19 virus has laid bare the abject failure of India’s health system to secure even elementary levels of health-care for its people. Everything fell short disastrously, sometimes catastrophically: hospital beds, doctors, nurses, testing kits, medical...
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