-PTI United Nations: India has been ranked a low 131 out of 167 nations on a global index that MEAsures the level of information and communication technology access, even as the number of households with Internet and computer has increased in the country over the last five years. UN International Telecommunications Union’s flagship annual MEAsuring the Information Society Report said that globally 3.2 billion people are now online, representing 43.4 per cent...
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Unshackling the states from central schemes
-Livemint.com A large number of central schemes end up curbing the autonomy of states In some ways, the thunder of finance minister Arun Jaitley’s first full-year budget was stolen by the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) report. Released just a few days before the budget speech was made, the FFC brought in significant changes in state-centre finances by increasing the devolution to states from 32% to 42% of the net Union tax...
More »How the world’s big cities are fighting climate change, together -Shivani Singh
-Hindustan Times If you thought climate change was only about melting glaciers and sinking islands, you have underestimated it. A report by C40, a global network of 82 megacities--including Delhi--committed to fighting climate change, says that at least 70% of these urban centres are already affected by climate change. Not all of them are coast or hill towns. As population is increasing in these megacities, rising pollution, growing congestion and mounting waste...
More »Regional languages are the lynchpin to India’s Internet boom -Jayant Sriram
-The Hindu Rural web access will grow on availability of content in languages including Hindi, Tamil India is expected to see an unprecedented boom in the number of Internet users over the next few years but for a host of Internet companies it MEAns a wholesale change in the language in which they engage with their potential new consumers. According to a November report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMAI),...
More »Survey flags death, malnutrition in drought-hit Bundelkhand -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Most homes not getting enough to eat; resorting to sending children for work, distress sale of any cattle; call for comprehensive relief without delay A little more than a third of the 100-odd drought-hit villages in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh have recorded at least one death due to hunger or malnutrition in the past eight months. And, about two-thirds of households often did not get two square MEAls in...
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