opinion GM mustard: Where is data on biosafety and higher yield? Lack of scientific rigour, opaqueness and conflict of interest in oversight mechanisms continue to cloud the decision-making on GM crops. By Prasanna Mohanty
opinion COP27: Fighting climate crisis against carbon billionaires The good news is, after the COP15 (2009) commitment to help developing/poor countries with $100 billion a year in adopting green energy, rich countries committed to “loss and damage fund” at COP27. By Prasanna Mohanty
opinion Draft Data Protection Bill: Free pass to breach privacy The latest data protection bill doesn't recognise the right to privacy, provides no checks against its breach by government agencies, provides for an unformed executive-controlled board for oversight. By Prasanna Mohanty
opinion U.S. is fundamentally redefining ‘gig work’; India must take note! It is bringing back “multifactor, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis” to determine if a worker is dependent on the employer and the business, or independent of them to qualify as gig worker By Prasanna Mohanty
opinion Rupee’s fall to 83: What does it say about India’s fundamentals? Except for sound forex reserve and external debt, other indicators like weak and K-shaped recovery, high fiscal deficits, high trade and current account deficits point to a prolonged crisis. By Prasanna Mohanty
