India’s GDP contracted by 7.3% in 2020-21, with revival now postponed to 2022-23; Data shows the Covid pandemic hurt younger workforce more; Investment activity hits historic low in FY21 amid Covid-19 pandemic

Petrol now costs almost twice as much in Mumbai than New York: These fuel tax hikes help the government collect Rs 1.8 lakh crore extra revenue

Bureaucratic football: Just one day before his retirement, Modi government forces a transfer of Mamata Banerjee’s Chief Secretary to New Delhi; the officer snubs Delhi, and retires in West Bengal instead and becomes Mamata’s Chief Advisor; In the past, Modi government harassed Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary after BJP’s electoral loss in Delhi

In Kashmir, Police treat pandemic as a law-and-order problem; Doctors & paramedics hope for relief from humiliation, assault and abuse that police subjected them to during this and previous curfews

Many tree-planting campaigns are based on flawed science