With a substantial portion of the population vaccinated and now even children being immunised, Covid-19 is heading towards becoming endemic in India, Dr Anita Mathew, a senior consultant, physician and infectious disease specialist at Fortis Hospital in Mumbai, and Dr Rommel Tickoo, director of Internal Medicine at Max Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi, said in an interview. They urge continued caution and Covid-19-appropriate behaviour, including masking for the next six months. They suggest that all eligible Indians get a vaccine booster dose to give themselves another layer of protection. Annual Covid-19 booster shots may become part of our lives as we learn to live with Covid as we do with many other diseases, they say.

‘Everyone eligible should take a Covid-19 vaccine booster dose without hesitation’

With a substantial portion of the population vaccinated and now even children being immunised, Covid-19 is heading towards becoming endemic in India, Dr Anita Mathew, a senior consultant, physician and infectious disease specialist at Fortis Hospital in Mumbai, and Dr Rommel Tickoo, director of Internal Medicine at Max Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi, said in an interview. They urge continued caution and Covid-19-appropriate behaviour, including masking for the next six months. They suggest that all eligible Indians get a vaccine booster dose to give themselves another layer of protection. Annual Covid-19 booster shots may become part of our lives as we learn to live with Covid as we do with many other diseases, they say.

Stateless Rohingya who cross over to India fleeing violence and ethnic cleansing do not have valid documentation. They run the risk of being picked up by police, detained indefinitely and deported to Myanmar, where their lives are at risk. Children are separated from their parents and legal and financial challenges further aggravate the misery of a persecuted ethnic minority. A ground report from Bengaluru, by Shreehari Paliath, who met Noor Banoo, a Rohingya refugee whose three children have been detained in West Bengal since the past five years.

Children Separated From Mothers: Rohingyas in India Fear Detention, Deportation

Stateless Rohingya who cross over to India fleeing violence and ethnic cleansing do not have valid documentation. They run the risk of being picked up by police, detained indefinitely and deported to Myanmar, where their lives are at risk. Children are separated from their parents and legal and financial challenges further aggravate the misery of a persecuted ethnic minority. A ground report from Bengaluru, by Shreehari Paliath, who met Noor Banoo, a Rohingya refugee whose three children have been detained in West Bengal since the past five years.

Unless users of water in villages &amp; townships become part of govt groundwater management progs, these will never be a community-owned schemes. Our ground report on how communities at the local level are fighting rural Karnataka&rsquo;s water crisis.

Training Local Communities To Rejuvenate Water Bodies In Rural Karnataka | IndiaSpend

Unless users of water in villages &amp; townships become part of govt groundwater management progs, these will never be a community-owned schemes. Our ground report on how communities at the local level are fighting rural Karnataka&rsquo;s water crisis.

In Karnataka, 43% of rural habitations do not have full drinking water coverage; of these, 41% get less than 40 liters of water/day and 2% get contaminated water. Our ground report on how communities at the local level are fighting rural Karnataka&rsquo;s water crisis.

Simplifying Complexities of Groundwater Management In Rural Karnataka | IndiaSpend

In Karnataka, 43% of rural habitations do not have full drinking water coverage; of these, 41% get less than 40 liters of water/day and 2% get contaminated water. Our ground report on how communities at the local level are fighting rural Karnataka&rsquo;s water crisis.

India is struggling with low labour force participation, low female labour force participation and a highly skewed labour market where the bulk of jobs are informal, says&nbsp; Naushad Forbes&nbsp; , co-chairman of Forbes Marshall and author of &lsquo;The Struggle And The Promise: Restoring India's Potential&rsquo;. These challenges represent opportunities for India, he said in an interview. The biggest single driver of growth and prosperity is moving people from lower productivity occupations into higher productivity occupations, and if India can put millions of people in good quality jobs, there&rsquo;s the potential to create an economic miracle that will sustain for 30 years.

'India's jobs crisis is an opportunity to create an economic miracle'

India is struggling with low labour force participation, low female labour force participation and a highly skewed labour market where the bulk of jobs are informal, says&nbsp; Naushad Forbes&nbsp; , co-chairman of Forbes Marshall and author of &lsquo;The Struggle And The Promise: Restoring India's Potential&rsquo;. These challenges represent opportunities for India, he said in an interview. The biggest single driver of growth and prosperity is moving people from lower productivity occupations into higher productivity occupations, and if India can put millions of people in good quality jobs, there&rsquo;s the potential to create an economic miracle that will sustain for 30 years.

Women&rsquo;s workforce participation is yet to recover to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, while men have regained most jobs they lost. We discussed workforce participation in the context of gender equity and the implications for women&rsquo;s empowerment with Christopher Elias, President of the Global Development Division at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. Women&rsquo;s jobs are mostly in the informal sector so they're more easily pushed out of the workforce, said Elias. Gendered barriers including the increased burden of caregiving due to COVID-19 prevent women from being able to reenter the workforce. The pandemic has shown that efforts for women's economic empowerment need to be redoubled, he said.

‘Covid-19 pandemic has shown how we undervalue women’s work’

Women&rsquo;s workforce participation is yet to recover to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, while men have regained most jobs they lost. We discussed workforce participation in the context of gender equity and the implications for women&rsquo;s empowerment with Christopher Elias, President of the Global Development Division at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. Women&rsquo;s jobs are mostly in the informal sector so they're more easily pushed out of the workforce, said Elias. Gendered barriers including the increased burden of caregiving due to COVID-19 prevent women from being able to reenter the workforce. The pandemic has shown that efforts for women's economic empowerment need to be redoubled, he said.

The government&rsquo;s move to raise the legal age at marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, with the aim of eradicating child marriage and ensuring gender parity, has prompted concerns from many public policy experts. Law is necessary but insufficient to bring the social change needed to end child marriage, explained Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India. Increased access to education is the main driver of a secular rise in age at marriage, she said. Girls must also be provided with skills linked to jobs for which there is market demand. Empowering women such that they decide if, when and to whom they wish to get married, is also crucial, she said.

'Law not sufficient to bring social change that will end child marriage'

The government&rsquo;s move to raise the legal age at marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, with the aim of eradicating child marriage and ensuring gender parity, has prompted concerns from many public policy experts. Law is necessary but insufficient to bring the social change needed to end child marriage, explained Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India. Increased access to education is the main driver of a secular rise in age at marriage, she said. Girls must also be provided with skills linked to jobs for which there is market demand. Empowering women such that they decide if, when and to whom they wish to get married, is also crucial, she said.

The 2022-23 budget kept the health budget unchanged as compared to the revised estimates of the 2021-22 budget. This is disappointing, K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and Yamini Aiyar, president and chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research, tell Govindraj Ethiraj. Watch the full interview for India&rsquo;s healthcare wishlist, where the budget falls short and the way ahead for better healthcare in India.

'No Country Has Provided Equitable, Inclusive Healthcare Without Investing In Public Health'

The 2022-23 budget kept the health budget unchanged as compared to the revised estimates of the 2021-22 budget. This is disappointing, K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and Yamini Aiyar, president and chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research, tell Govindraj Ethiraj. Watch the full interview for India&rsquo;s healthcare wishlist, where the budget falls short and the way ahead for better healthcare in India.

The assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarkhand, Manipur and Goa are nearing. States have started gearing up for the polls, and many of the voters like every election year are thinking whether they will be able to vote of not.
Many voters often complain of not finding their names in the voter list on the last day. If you don't want to miss out on voting this time, go through our short tutorial to check how one can register to vote.

How To Check Your Name In Voters' List

The assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarkhand, Manipur and Goa are nearing. States have started gearing up for the polls, and many of the voters like every election year are thinking whether they will be able to vote of not.
Many voters often complain of not finding their names in the voter list on the last day. If you don't want to miss out on voting this time, go through our short tutorial to check how one can register to vote.

&ldquo;Until water disappeared from our house, it remained invisible to us,&rdquo; said Mridula Ramesh, author of the book, Watershed: How We Destroyed India&rsquo;s Water And How We Can Save It. In her latest book, she writes about how Indians once understood how special water was and had devised ways to manage it well. In an interview, Ramesh, the founder of Sundaram Climate Institute, an investor in cleantech start-ups, and the executive director of Sundaram Textiles, talks about how we can manage water better at home, how there is inequality in access to water and why water is a woman.

‘We have forgotten our water in every way possible’

&ldquo;Until water disappeared from our house, it remained invisible to us,&rdquo; said Mridula Ramesh, author of the book, Watershed: How We Destroyed India&rsquo;s Water And How We Can Save It. In her latest book, she writes about how Indians once understood how special water was and had devised ways to manage it well. In an interview, Ramesh, the founder of Sundaram Climate Institute, an investor in cleantech start-ups, and the executive director of Sundaram Textiles, talks about how we can manage water better at home, how there is inequality in access to water and why water is a woman.

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Recent surveys have pointed to a fall in general performance of school students, post India&rsquo;s lengthy Covid-19 school closures. We asked Anurag Behar, Vice-Chancellor of Azim Premji University, whether surveys or other such research are asking the right questions to improve school education, in context of both traditional challenges and those brought about by the pandemic. Research should be focused on how to improve education, and India is falling short in terms of both the amount of, and kinds of, research that we are doing, he told us in an interview. To improve research on education, practitioners such as teachers and education officers, not academics and policy-makers, should be setting the questions, said Behar.

Teachers, Not Academics Or Policymakers, Should Lead Education Research

Recent surveys have pointed to a fall in general performance of school students, post India&rsquo;s lengthy Covid-19 school closures. We asked Anurag Behar, Vice-Chancellor of Azim Premji University, whether surveys or other such research are asking the right questions to improve school education, in context of both traditional challenges and those brought about by the pandemic. Research should be focused on how to improve education, and India is falling short in terms of both the amount of, and kinds of, research that we are doing, he told us in an interview. To improve research on education, practitioners such as teachers and education officers, not academics and policy-makers, should be setting the questions, said Behar.

The adverse impact on India&rsquo;s children of school closures for nearly two years during the Covid-19 pandemic is now becoming clearer through recent large-scale surveys. It&rsquo;s no surprise that these surveys indicate significant learning loss among children, given that schools were closed for over 500 days, says Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham Education Foundation. The two major challenges for India right now are ensuring a better learning experience for primary school children who missed formative years of schooling, and helping those past the grade III stage recover learning loss, Banerji told us in an interview. To achieve this, schools must focus on catching up, not curriculum, she says, and suggests a re-haul of the examination system.

‘To recoup learning loss, schools should focus on catch-up, not curriculum’

The adverse impact on India&rsquo;s children of school closures for nearly two years during the Covid-19 pandemic is now becoming clearer through recent large-scale surveys. It&rsquo;s no surprise that these surveys indicate significant learning loss among children, given that schools were closed for over 500 days, says Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham Education Foundation. The two major challenges for India right now are ensuring a better learning experience for primary school children who missed formative years of schooling, and helping those past the grade III stage recover learning loss, Banerji told us in an interview. To achieve this, schools must focus on catching up, not curriculum, she says, and suggests a re-haul of the examination system.

In 2013, tragedy struck Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, when a flash flood washed away two bridges, a barrage for a hydropower project, inflicted heavy damage on another hydropower project and killed nearly three dozen people. Now, nine years later, residents tell us how their houses and agricultural fields are developing cracks, and the land is sinking with each passing year. Noted geologists say the floods have left the mountain slopes unstable, and that the government should study the mountains and take immediate and appropriate action.

Lasting Impacts of The 2013 Uttarakhand Floods: Cracks In Houses, Sinking Land Today

In 2013, tragedy struck Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, when a flash flood washed away two bridges, a barrage for a hydropower project, inflicted heavy damage on another hydropower project and killed nearly three dozen people. Now, nine years later, residents tell us how their houses and agricultural fields are developing cracks, and the land is sinking with each passing year. Noted geologists say the floods have left the mountain slopes unstable, and that the government should study the mountains and take immediate and appropriate action.

With new cases of monkeypox being detected in multiple countries in recent weeks, concerns are rising over this zoonotic virus, i.e. which was transmitted from animals to humans, just like Covid-19. The monkeypox virus belongs to the same family of viruses as smallpox, which was successfully eradicated in India and all over the world by 1980 through immunisation, says infectious diseases expert Ishwar Gilada. India should restart production of smallpox vaccines, which can be used not only for immunisation against monkeypox but also to treat the disease, Gilada told us in an interview.

India Should Produce Smallpox Vaccines To Combat Monkeypox

With new cases of monkeypox being detected in multiple countries in recent weeks, concerns are rising over this zoonotic virus, i.e. which was transmitted from animals to humans, just like Covid-19. The monkeypox virus belongs to the same family of viruses as smallpox, which was successfully eradicated in India and all over the world by 1980 through immunisation, says infectious diseases expert Ishwar Gilada. India should restart production of smallpox vaccines, which can be used not only for immunisation against monkeypox but also to treat the disease, Gilada told us in an interview.

Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit employed in the Revenue Department, was shot inside his office by terrorists in Central Kashmir&rsquo;s Budgam district. Since then, Kashmiri Pandits have been protesting demanding the administration for their safety across Jammu and Kashmir.
Government employees, employed under the Prime Minister&rsquo;s employment scheme. are demanding their transfer to safer places like the Jammu region.

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Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit employed in the Revenue Department, was shot inside his office by terrorists in Central Kashmir&rsquo;s Budgam district. Since then, Kashmiri Pandits have been protesting demanding the administration for their safety across Jammu and Kashmir.
Government employees, employed under the Prime Minister&rsquo;s employment scheme. are demanding their transfer to safer places like the Jammu region.

Inflation, which reached 7.8% in April 2022 despite weak consumer demand, is set to become the biggest headwind to India's economic recovery in fiscal year 2022-23, per a report by rating agency CRISIL. Weak demand reflects India's K-shaped economic recovery post the Covid-19 pandemic-induced contraction, with private consumption growing slowly because the poorer haven't benefited much from the recovery, says Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist at CRISIL. The government must cut excise duties on petroleum products or reduce import duties on edible oils to control rising prices and inflation, already above the RBI's danger mark of 6%, sooner rather than later, he told us in an interview.

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Inflation, which reached 7.8% in April 2022 despite weak consumer demand, is set to become the biggest headwind to India's economic recovery in fiscal year 2022-23, per a report by rating agency CRISIL. Weak demand reflects India's K-shaped economic recovery post the Covid-19 pandemic-induced contraction, with private consumption growing slowly because the poorer haven't benefited much from the recovery, says Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist at CRISIL. The government must cut excise duties on petroleum products or reduce import duties on edible oils to control rising prices and inflation, already above the RBI's danger mark of 6%, sooner rather than later, he told us in an interview.

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