Another Data leak!

Another data breach, this time from the CoWin portal, is serving as a reminder of India’s weak data protection system and the need to immediately work on it. Last week, The Fourth, a news...

Read more June 23, 2023 at 1:23 pm Kavita Kabeer

How the Centre is suffocating Kerala and how Rajasthan is surviving and shining

By imposing unfair restrictions on the borrowing capacity of Kerala, the Union government has denied about 15000 crore in a single stroke. The State may get into serious financial trouble in the near future,...

Balasore Train Accident—Safety Before Speed

Do we need luxury trains or safe and reliable trains? Do we need Vande Bharats that cost over Rs 1000 even for a small journey or trains that the poor take to work, to...

Read more June 14, 2023 at 3:22 pm Kavita Kabeer

Fortified Rice: iron for some, gold for many

Fortified rice is making inroads into India’s Public Distribution System despite a very inadequate pilot study and disregarding the health concerns of 80 crore beneficiaries. Now a new report by the reporter’s collective has...

Read more June 6, 2023 at 1:29 pm Kavita Kabeer

We need a strong plastics treaty that regards people and the planet | Swathi Seshadri at INC2

Swathi Seshadri speaks at the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment at INC-2.

Vanishing non-AC coaches: Railways organised loot gets bigger | THE MONEY TRAIL

The Money Trail Railway has been systematically reducing sleeper coaches for some time. Now they have officially announced that except for local slow trains, there will be only AC coaches. In a country where...

Are Muslims edged out of budgets and govt projects? Economist Khalid Khan explains the whole plot | On Second Thought

The minority ministry lost 38% of its money in the last budget. Meanwhile, the budget allocation multiplied manyfold for tribal communities.

Read more May 29, 2023 at 12:25 pm Jimmy James

फिर से नोटेबंदी का वार | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

किसी देश की करेंसी या मुद्रा बस विनिमय का माध्यम नहीं बल्कि उसकी विश्वसनीयता और आर्थिक मज़बूती को भी बयां करती है। लेकिन हमारी सरकार ने एक बार फिर से इनके साथ खिलवाड़ किया।...

The anti-climax of demonetisation or another masterstroke? THE MONEY TRIAL

The withdrawal of 2000 rupee notes is quite normal, reasoned the RBI. Later it explained that even after the deadline notes will continue to be a legal tender! As the final episode of demonetisation...

Read more May 22, 2023 at 5:11 pm Jimmy James

De-dollarisation: Are the days of dollar supremacy over?

For the first time, the Gulf countries are trading oil in Yuan. BRICS countries are planning a new common currency. Are the days of dollar supremacy over?

Read more May 19, 2023 at 3:06 pm Kavita Kabeer

What is happening with the PM CARES fund?

Remember the PM CARES fund? Set up during the Covid-19 pandemic, this fund was supposed to help us to fight Covid, and other emergency situations, instead, it became mired in controversies. In January this...

Read more May 10, 2023 at 3:39 pm Kavita Kabeer

अडानी पर सेबी की जांच का सच | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

किसी को उम्मीद नहीं थी कि सेबी 2 महीने में अपनी अडानी जांच पूरी कर लेगा। अब उसने छह महीने की मोहलत मांगी है। सवाल यह है कि क्या यह जांच अगले साल आने...

Who is SEBI afraid of? THE MONEY TRAIL

Nobody expected SEBI to complete its Adani investigation in 2 months. Now they have requested a six-month extension. The question is, will this be the last of such requests? Meanwhile the 8 key sectors...

Ratnagiri protests: Cost of development

A battle is raging in the Konkan region of Maharashtra between the people and the government. So far over a thousand people were arrested and many were booked for rioting, unlawful assembly and disobedience...

Read more May 2, 2023 at 4:25 pm Kavita Kabeer

Fortified Rice: A Villain or a Saviour?

India suffers from high rates of malnutrition, especially among women and children. The government claims that the fortification of food can be a sure-shot solution to combat it. As rice is a staple diet...

Read more April 25, 2023 at 3:08 pm Kavita Kabeer

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