-Livemint.com The richest household’s assets are worth much more than that of all the others combined and the same conclusion holds if we take the distribution of rural assets We all know that Credit Suisse reckons that the richest 1% of Indians own 58.4% of the nation’s wealth, up from 36.8% in 2000. What is perhaps not so well-known is that, according to the Credit Suisse report, the bottom 70% of Indians...
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NINe in every 10 children do not get adequate diet in Jharkhand, Bihar: NFHS data
-Down to Earth Almost 69.9 per cent of children under five years in Jharkhand are acutely suffering from anaemia NINe out of every ten children within the age-group of 6–23 months in Bihar and Jharkhand do not get adequate diet, as the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS 4, 2015-16) data highlights. In a series of startling revelations, the nutrition and health status of children in the two states are found...
More »India's first community radio still makes the right connect -R Avadhani
-The Hindu Sangam, which went on air in 2008, continues its two-hour broadcast in Telugu and reaches out to people of 150 villages in Telangana Musligari Nagamani, a farmer, is listeNINg to the radio sitting a few inches away from her as she cooks dinner on firewood in her tiled-roof house. The broadcast in Telugu is peppered with local colloquialisms and slang. This is how eveNINgs are spent in most houses in...
More »Fasal Bima Yojana needs fine-tuNINg -Rajalakshmi Nirmal
-The Hindu Business Line Short tenure of the policy is its biggest drawback. With El NINo expected to mar the monsoon this year, insurers may stay away A normal monsoon in 2016, after two years of drought, has not only led to a bountiful harvest for farmers, but also filled the coffers of private insurers. The Kharif 2016 season resulting in lower claims has helped private insurers in particular rake in good profits...
More »HC gives Yogi Adityanath government 24-hour deadline to produce illegal meat shops' closure orders
-The Financial Express The Allahabad High Court on Monday gave Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government 24 hours to produce before it all the orders on the basis of which it closed illegal meat shops in the state. The Lucknow court had ordered the state counsel on March 27th to produce the order by April 3 but the state failed to do so and instead sought more time for...
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