-The Indian Express North-East Bandh Today, Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) Protests Live News Updates: The CAB is a contentious issue in Northeast India with influential socio-political groups and political parties holding it as a threat to the interests of the indigenous communities of the region. Agartala, Guwahati, Imphal, New Delhi: Security has been beefed up across the states of North-East as an 11-hour bandh called in protest against the contentious Citizenship...
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27 students across 10 IITs ended their lives in five years: RTI
-The Indian Express As per the data provided by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, IIT Madras tops the list with suicides by seven students during this period. Twenty seven students across 10 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country have committed suicide in the last five years, reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed. As per the data provided by the Department of Higher Education working...
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-TheWire.in Sustaining growth amidst a global economic slowdown would require tackling corruption. Raghuram Rajan, the-then outgoing Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, in an exit interview he granted to Karan Thapar (‘To The Point’, YouTube, September 2, 2016), took satisfaction from the fact that India was “on a more sustainable growth path”. The remark turned out to be premature. Less than two years later, starting the first quarter of FY 18/19, ominous...
More »India ranks 129 out of 189 countries & territories in terms of human development index for 2018
-United Nations Development Programme, released on 9 December, 2019 According to the Human Development Report 2019: Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century, India’s HDI value for 2018 is 0.647— which put the country in the medium human development category—positioning it at 129 out of 189 countries and territories. Between 1990 and 2018, India’s HDI value increased from 0.431 to 0.647, an increase of 50.0 percent. Between 1990 and 2018, India’s...
More »In India's second poorest state, Govt efforts to curb hunger are failing -Kunal Purohit
-IndiaSpend.com Garhwa district, Jharkhand: Bhagiya Birjia is in a fix. Each month, the 42-year-old farm labourer gets 35 kg food grains under Antyodaya Anna Yojana--a scheme meant to provide food security for the poorest Indians--on account of being a member of the Birjia tribe, designated a ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group’ (PVTG). But she is forced to share the grains with seven members of her brother’s family, who live a short walk away...
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