-The Hindu How did the Chilume Educational Cultural and Rural Development Trust acquire personal information of voters? Can the data be recovered? The story so far: On November 16, Bengaluru’s civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) said in a press release that it had cancelled permissions granted to the Chilume Educational Cultural and Rural Development Trust to conduct house-to-house surveys to help create awareness about the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral...
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Gujarat Elections: Steady Grumble About Unemployment Across State
-PTI/ Newsclick.in Nearly 3.64 lakh educated and "semi-educated" youngsters had registered with employment exchanges till December 2021. New Delhi: Nearly 3.64 lakh educated and "semi-educated" youngsters had registered with employment exchanges across Gujarat till December 2021, according to state Government data. Of them, the highest number of unemployed youths -- 26,921 -- were in Vadodara, followed by Ahmedabad (26,628), Anand (22,515), Rajkot (18,997) and Kheda (16,163) districts. The figures were shared by Labour, Skill...
More »Fact check: Union minister’s claim of 15-16 lakh jobs being created every month is inaccurate -Divyani Dubey & Nidhi Jacob
-Scroll.in Ashwini Vaishnaw based his remarks on EPFO data, which experts say does not present a true picture since a bulk of the employment in the country is informal. Union Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on November 24 used the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, or EPFO, payroll statistics to claim that an average of about 15-16 lakh jobs are being generated by the Union government every month....
More »Maternal mortality ratio reduces to 97 in 2018-20 from 130 in 2014-16, says Mandaviya
-PTI/ Hindustan Times According to the Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India 2018-20, Assam, which has the highest MMR, is followed by Madhya Pradesh with MMR of 173 per lakh live births and Uttar Pradesh 167. Maternal Mortality Ratio has declined from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20, according to a special bulletin released by the office of the Registrar General of...
More »India’s laptop imports surged to $5 bn in first 9 months of 2022. Nearly 73% came from China -Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in Since 2017, China has accounted for around 75 per cent of India’s laptop imports, but the government is now expanding its list of importing partners. New Delhi: India’s laptop imports surged to $5.24 billion in the first nine months of 2022, and about three-fourths came from China, show the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. According to the data, in the first three-quarters of 2021, India had imported...
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