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‘GDP Data for First Quarter of 2025-26 Estimates Higher Growth But Misses Key Indicator’: A major issue in the estimation methodology used is the non-availability of data for the unorganised sector. It is proxied by a little bit of organised sector data. Also: ‘The Masked Reality of India’s Growth Numbers’.
The fifth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the neoliberal policies implemented in India during the period 1991-2014 on the higher education.
‘1% Controls 60% of Total Wealth in India, Rich to Get Richer: Report’; ‘India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less’; ‘Almost 40% Consumers Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Report’.
‘Return of the Long Working Day!’: A personal experience of an emotionally, physically and financially draining stint with corporate slavery in India’s finance capital. Also: ‘Government of Maharashtra’s Decision to “Reform” Labour Laws is Highly Regressive and a Clear Attack on Labour Rights’.
‘10-Minute Delivery in Relentless Rains: What it Costs Riders and What They Earn?’: Delivery persons for apps like Blinkit and Swiggy work in conditions akin to forced labour, and earn less than minimum wages. Also: ‘Gig Work Legislations Significant in Opening the Space for Labour Protection’.
‘Punjab Floods: Rivers Overflow, 3 Lakh Acres of Crops Affected’. Also: ‘Activists and Environmentalists Question Role of Dams as Punjab Battles Flood’: The process of a sudden discharge of water from the dams, combined with Punjab’s own torrential rainfall, culminated in a disaster that could have been mitigated had authorities heeded warnings.
‘Assam’s Plan to Expel “Illegal Migrants” Overnight is a New Extrajudicial Model of Mass Disenfranchisement’; ‘Corrosive Rhetoric Against Bengali-Speaking Muslims is Tearing Assam Apart’; and: ‘Two Leaves and a Bud From Assam’: Insaniyat and Bhupen Hazarika’s humanism are the lessons we have grown up with, says Syeda Hameed.
‘How Long is Too Long? Umar, Gulfisha, Sharjeel and Crisis of Credibility of Courts’: Release of the Delhi riots conspiracy prisoners, who continue to face incarceration for five plus years without a trial, is no longer a legal issue. It is a test of this nation’s moral conscience. Also: ‘How The Rejection of Bail for Muslim Activists Accused in the Delhi Riots Defies the Law, Facts and Fairness’.
By shielding the prime minister’s documents from scrutiny, the court has told Indians that we don’t need to ask questions – we only need to believe our leader.
Over the last 10 years, farmers have struggled with warming winters, erratic snowfall, spring frosts, pest attacks and now extreme summer hailstorms. As climate change leaves Kashmir apple farmers in debt and pushes millions of crisis-ridden farmers nationwide further into despair, government relief is minimal, and crop insurance unaffordable.
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