KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Dr CP Rajendran, expert on seismo-tectonics, earthquakes and tsunami geology, interviewed by Rashme Sehgal (Newsclick.in)
-Newsclick.in Joshimath is a serious warning signal. Any realistic development strategy should balance infra development, acceptable levels of risk, and carrying capacity of the terrai, says the noted expert on earthquakes. Dr. CP Rajendran is among India’s foremost experts on seismo-tectonics, earthquakes and tsunami geology. He is also a strong critic of the development model being pursued in Uttarakhand, a hilly state where the intensity of large-scale infrastructure projects has been rising...
More »Promise of 300 days of work under MGNREGA fails to prevent exodus of labourers from Odisha -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu Over past 10 days, the Balangir police have prevented 500 workers from migrating to other States KANTABANJI (ODISHA): Juta Majhi was just a few kilometres away from the Kantabanji railway station in Odisha when the Balangir district police intercepted him last week. Mr. Majhi, 38, a resident of Badibahal under the Khaprakhol police station in the district, and his family members were planning to board a train to Karnataka and travel...
More »More than 80% of women commuters faced sexual harassment but only 1% reported it, here's why -Samrat Sharma
-IndiaToday.in Over 80 per cent of surveyed women in Delhi faced sexual harassment but only 1 per cent reported it to the police. The importance of a well-oiled public transport system in cities has become a growing concern lately. Poverty, expansion of cities, climate change — several things factor into this discussion. But this discussion is incomplete without addressing the elephant in the room: rampant sexual harassment faced by women in public...
More »Trains, Road Traffic Affected As Farmers Protest In Punjab, Haryana
-PTI/ NDTV.com In Punjab, the Ferozepur division of Indian Railways had to cancel or reschedule several trains because of the four-hour agitation. As a result, scores of passengers were forced to wait at various railway stations for hours. Chandigarh: Farmers on Sunday squatted on railway tracks and blocked roads at several places in Punjab and Haryana as part of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha's nationwide protest against the centre "reneging on its promises"...
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