K.K. Pandey Municipal corporations that saw high numbers of Covid-19-affected were at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic, particularly during the lockdown, total and partial, during the first and second wave—mapping hotspots, managing containment zones with quarantine facilities,…
T K Arun India’s total fertility rate (TFR), the number of children a woman in India will have, on average, during her lifetime, has dipped below 2.1. Time we upgraded the quality of our financial reporting. What is the connection…
Manoj Parmar In the year 1988, when Prof. Denise Hector (University of Miami) was discussing architecture and technology as large virtues that determine the trajectory of architectural paradigm, he was referring to architecture, broadly as two axes of analysis. The two…
Arun Kumar A bill to deal with the growing concern about cryptos is likely to be ready soon. Cryptos are a virtual entity which can potentially be like cash with implications for monetary policy, etc.. But there is lack of…
Manoj Parmar The Werkbund housing in Vienna epitomizes the ethos of very early stage modernity along with fresh explorations in housing that not only set the trends in Vienna but across all Europe. The ribbon windows, composition of perforations, the…
There is a growing demand from a section of farmers’ organisations for guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP). The Central government has agreed to constitute a committee to consider the issue. Now the onus is on the committee to come out with a solution amicable to all stakeholders — farmers as well as Central and state governments. As the proposal will have huge logistic and fiscal implications (estimated costs varying between Rs 1.5 lakh crore and Rs 2.5 lakh crore), which can be sustainable only if both Central and state governments share the burden. Agriculture is a state subject and the entire agricultural extension machinery is in the hands of states, which can advise farmers on the correct choice of crop rotation, the use of right quantity of inputs, supply of irrigation water and most importantly APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) markets.