Inflation is beginning to hurt seriously, corruption is at an all-time high and the government is not doing enough to tackle either problem. That is the way India's big cities feel on the two big issues dominating headlines in recent months, according to an 8-city Survey done exclusively for TOI. Asked what impact rising prices have had on their household budgets, only 3% said it has had a small impact. About...
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Blame climate change! by TN Ninan
So what caused the French Revolution? Food prices did. A hailstorm destroyed French crops, food prices rose 88 per cent in one year, and hungry Parisians turned on their rulers. Ditto with the Tian-an-men showdown exactly 200 years later, in 1989: consumer prices rose 21 per cent in a country that had known virtually no inflation under Communist rule. The Suharto regime got overthrown in Indonesia in 1998 after food...
More »Mumbai's rising maternal mortality rate
A shocking Survey in Mumbai has highlighted the alarming rise in the number of death's during childbirth. That's in sharp contrast to the all India trend that has shown a decline in last few years. Hard to believe, yet in the heart of Mumbai last year over 200 women died at childbirth beating the figure of 154 last year. This shows how maternal mortality in the city is rising at...
More »The Slow Death Of The RTI Act by Udit Misra
And you thought you could get information from the State using the RTI Act? Take your place in the line behind thousands of frustrated citizens The government is considering changes to the Right To Information Act (RTI) that activists feel could dilute the power of the Act. Former Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has recommended protecting the judiciary from RTI queries apparently on grounds that the move would “erode” the...
More »Bihar becomes first state to put school information online
Bihar is the first state in India to put information about students, teachers and educational status online as part of an effort to improve education Bihar has become the first state in the country to put details of Classes 1 to 8 of all its 70,000 government schools online. Only recently, a Survey of primary education showed that the state, considered one of the most poorly developed in the country, had...
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