-The Telegraph Recovery will stumble, inflation will rise, rupee could weaken further, say economists New Delhi: India abstained on the US-sponsored UN Security Council “deploring” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But we definitely won’t be able to stay on the sidelines when it comes to facing the economic consequences of the war, the most serious conflict in Europe since the second world war. India’s not a part of organisations like Nato whose members like...
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India signs deals to export 5.5 lakh tonnes of wheat as Asian nations look for supplies -Subramani Ra Mancombu
-The Hindu Business Line Shipments may top 30 lt by June; consignments will include new crop Indian wheat exporters have signed deals to export at least 5.5 lakh tonnes (lt) over the next couple of months as nations in South Asia, South-East Asia and West Asia are looking to New Delhi to meet their requirements for food and feed in view of the Ukraine-Russia crisis. “We have demand for Indian wheat from March-April....
More »India May See Fourth Covid Wave From June, Peak In August: Study
-PTI/ NDTV.com Officials at the World Health Organization recently warned that Omicron may not be the last Covid variant and the next strain could be more contagious. New Delhi: The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India may start around June 22 and peak from mid-to-late August, a modelling study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur suggests. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, recently posted on the preprint repository MedRxiv, used a...
More »Ensure no ‘religious attire’ in classes, SDMC-run schools told -Muneef Khan
-The Hindu SDMC’s education panel chairperson issues instructions to prevent ‘religious attire’ in schools Officials of South Delhi Municipal Corporation-run schools have been instructed to ensure that no students come to class wearing any “religious attire”. The directions, issued by the civic body’s Education Committee chairperson Nitika Sharma (BJP) to the SDMC’s Director of Primary Education on Friday, have come following a controversy over a girl student being asked to remove her hijab...
More »Ticking time bomb: The perilous lives of garment workers amid the pandemic -Vaibhav Raghunandan
-Down to Earth blog Women workers in garment industry share stories of gender discrimination, insensitive treatment and government apathy The garment industry has long been under the microscope for flouting labour codes, breaking environmental norms, violating human rights, pay structures and much more. The women garment workers who attended an orientation workshop at a hotel on Delhi-Gurugram road October 2021, headed by Society for Labour and Development (SLD), know about these flaws. In...
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