Nitin Sethi

Climate change could cause 29% spike in cereal prices: leaked UN report

Food supply chains will get disrupted globally, the study warns. Report to be officially released in August

Budget 2019: Is the rationalised GST target still too ambitious?

CGST would have to average Rs 47,358 cr a month for rest of FY19 compared to Rs 33,257 cr so far

Budget 2019: Govt protects social sector spending from any cuts

These schemes will not bear the cost of lowered expectations of tax revenues

Eco survey urges behavioural economics nudge for socio-economic goals

The branch of economics has gained traction in policy making recently, becoming more popular after economist Richard H Thaler, known for his work on 'Nudge' theory, won Nobel in 2017

CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian to continue two-volume Economic Survey

Sources said the first volume will also likely include a chapter focusing on the regulatory framework for credit rating agencies

Four years after signing Paris pact, India unclear on its forestry target

Liberal interpretation of the target would require an additional investment of Rs 1.36 trillion between 2020-2030, warns government's research body

How Haryana govt is facilitating illegal privatisation of Kot common lands

Senior state officials have previously warned that the govt move will help private companies that illegally procured land in Aravalli, and that it should not be allowed

Patanjali's web of zero-revenue companies that do land dealing in Haryana

The Patanjali group, better known for its FMCG business, has been picking up disputed real estate in the Aravalli hills through a maze of entities

Quietly, Baba Ramdev's Patanjali group has crept into Aravalli hills

The yoga guru's companies and associates, bypassing restrictions, have discreetly purchased a large tract of forested, hilly common land in a village in Faridabad, Haryana

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat gets Jal Shakti to fulfil PM Modi's promise

New omnibus ministry to deal with all water- and sanitation-related issues

Generic corruption

Book review of Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Arun Jaitley holds meeting on next budget amid rumours of ill health

Officials present at the meeting said Jaitley was in good health and looked fit to join the cabinet of the NDA government's second tenure

Realty hits green hurdle as rules bent for Ease of Doing Business in court

Easing rules to improve Ease of Doing Business ranking has ended up in court

States wrest back control over how lands they want to acquire are priced

After the Centre failed to do so, state governments have diluted provisions in the land acquisition law which pegged compensation for owners to the market price of land

Rahul's scheme for poor to cost Rs 3.5 trn: Congress' data analytics chief

'Scheme to be rolled out in phases. States will be roped in to bear costs'

Centre drafts stricter alternative to Colonial-era Indian Forest Act, 1927

Forest bureaucracy to get more policing powers, including higher immunity to use firearms and override Forest Rights Act

Big brothers are watching you: Govt reveals rules for electronic snooping

The government follows a 2011 protocol for electronic snooping, it revealed in a recent court hearing

Here's why the Forest Rights Act was never implemented efficiently

A detailed analysis by Land Conflict Watch lists the impediments states put in forms of additional conditions and regulations to deny claimants their legitimate rights

SC eviction order likely to impact 1.89 mn tribal, forest-dwelling families

Tribal affairs ministry had warned states last year hasty evictions could create 'grounds for unrest, agitation and fuel extremism'.

SC orders forced eviction of more than 1 million tribals, forest-dwellers

Court gives states till July 27 to evict tribals based on a petition filed by wildlife groups questioning the validity of the Forest Rights Act.