Varsha Singh
Passionate about social issues, especially children and women’s rights, rising inequity and human rights, Varsha Singh, a Post-Graduate in English (Hons) from Calcutta University and Mass Communications from St Xavier’s Calcutta, gravitated naturally to journalism in 2013. Varsha has made her passions the subject matter of her work and she has been writing regularly about these issues, besides business, tourism, culture and politics. Of late, Varsha has been pursuing another passion, multimedia journalism making videos reports on social issues and current affairs, looking at them with a different lens. Outside of her work, Varsha is equally passionate about cinema, music, travel and tea. Indeed, she is the inhouse film and music encyclopedia and a full-time chai-o-holic.
ReUnite – An app launched to track missing children
July 11, 2018
Thousands of children go missing in India every year. According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, about 2, 50,000 children have been registered as missing from 2012 to 2017. Tracking those children and rescuing them has always been a challenging...
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One year of GST
July 9, 2018
The government called GST a game changer as it abolished several indirect taxes and brought them under one category. After the implementation of GST, tax slabs were changed several times, which resulted in delay in refunds and technical glitches in filing returns.
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Power theft continues to hit Indian economy
July 4, 2018
As per the Central Electricity Authority, over 27 pc of all power produced in India is either lost due to dissipation from wires or theft. That’s about 261,130 Gigawatt/hour of power annually- enough to light up New York for nearly two years.
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The FIFA frenzy in India
July 2, 2018
The FIFA is making businesses run into profit as the sales of merchandise and other football gears are continuously rising. TV makers are also luring clients by launching new television models and coming up with new financial schemes.
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Maharashtra government bans plastic
June 28, 2018
The plastic ban in Mumbai has been lauded by many but the decision has taken a toll on the plastic industry, retailers, and unorganised markets in the state. The ban has left nearly 300,000 individuals without jobs and the plastic industry is staring at a loss of INR 150 billion....
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Major cities to run out of ground water by 2020, says NITI Aayog report
June 25, 2018
Major cities, including Delhi, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, are expected to reach zero groundwater levels by 2020, affecting millions. The Niti Aayog report says that the water scarcity will lead to an eventual 6 pc loss in India’s GDP. India is placed at 120th among 122 countries...
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Are stray dogs a major problem in India?
June 22, 2018
The Indian government has to come up with large scale interventions and organisations that can deal with the issue of stray dogs in India.
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Economic impact of violence in India at USD 1.19 trillion, says study
June 19, 2018
Violence affects the Indian economy a whooping amount of USD 1.19 trillion. India ranks 136th among the 183 countries in terms of overall peace and 59th, in terms of the economic cost as percentage of GDP.
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Mushrooming of paid news culture in India
June 17, 2018
The role of the media is supposed to facilitate greater accountability of public personalities and bring the corruption into light. But seeing the recent trends the credibility of media is being questioned. Only after a month of ‘Operation 136’ Cobrapost, an independent inves...
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Expansion of uranium mining in India
June 13, 2018
The uranium mining projects in India have time and again failed to gain “social consent” which leads in slowing down approvals and increasing the project costs.
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Google’s free WiFi project caters to 400 train stations in India
June 13, 2018
The project covered 100 of the busiest railway stations across India within the first year of its launch, thus enabling 15,000 people to experience the internet for the first time every day. Each station has a capacity of 1GB and the internet connection slows down after 30 minute...
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Citizens’ draft privacy bill
June 12, 2018
Privacy violation may now lead to penalty of INR 10 million and prison sentence of three years. The data privacy bill also talks about penalizing companies found violating the law as well.
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