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News  Kerala government has recently announced a rail project named Silver Line.  This has received some aversive reactions from ecologists, engineers, activists and citizens which include Madhav Gadgil, E. Sreedharan, Prashant Bhushan and Medha Patkar, etc.  What are the concerns regarding Silverline project?  Concern of flooding– Mr. Sreedharan, perhaps India’s most famous railway engineer has put forth the view that… Continue reading The Silver Line project is anti-development

News: Speeches of Yati Narsinghanand have ignited the debate of hate speech. The Speeches called for violence against Muslims, a clear threat to minorities. This also goes against India’s international legal obligations like the convention on prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide of 1948, which has been signed and ratified by India. What is… Continue reading Genocide convention: Preventing genocide

News: Contemporary threats to the World and to India in 2022. What are the risks/threats that the world needs to confront this year? One, the future of democracy is under threat. The following reasons are Rise of authoritarian rulers in many countries. The attack on democratic tenets in recent years. America, seen as a bulwark… Continue reading India’s watchwords in a not so bright 2022

News  According to the twentieth livestock census around 95.8% of livestock population in India is concentrated in rural areas. This makes access to veterinary services, a major challenge.  To mitigate this problem, Government has introduced Mobile Veterinary Units (MVUs) under the revised provisions of Livestock Health and Disease Control (LH&DC) programme.  What are MVUs?  MVU are vans which are equipped with veterinarian and… Continue reading “Just what the doctor ordered for the livestock farmers”

News: In the visit to Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister assured to help Sri Lanka to overcome economic and other challenges that occurred because of the pandemic. What is the economic condition of Sri Lanka? Sri Lankan economy is in big crisis with a credit crunch, a slump in GDP, foreign reserves that reduced from $7.5… Continue reading Friend in need: On India-Sri Lanka ties

News: As many as 10 crore Indians may already have investments exceeding a total of $10 million in Cryptocurrencies. This not only creates an avenue for generation of tax revenue, but also puts forth a huge challenge for the tax authorities who have to track and tax transactions involving cryptocurrencies. What is the current legal… Continue reading Taxing Cryptocurrency transactions

News: Chennai witnessed 24 cm rainfall, a very high level, on December 30, 2021. This again raises questions on urban governance and management of urban floods. What are the challenges in urban governance? Like the 2005 Mumbai floods, there was community support and mobilization for change, but changes remained on paper. Niti Aayog’s report on… Continue reading Urban governance and urban floods: Storm warnings of a megacity collapse

News: Recently, all consumer goods distributors in Maharashtra were protesting against Colgate’s alleged unfair treatment of traditional distributors with respect to B2B technology companies such as JioMart, Udaan, and others. What is the issue? The manufacturer, Colgate, sells its product to the distributor for ₹40 and the distributors sell Colgate toothpaste to retail stores for… Continue reading Predatory pricing is prising Indian livelihoods apart