-The Indian Express Sources told The Indian Express that the committee will start work and refer to the state government, as per its terms of reference, cases that merit a relook or withdrawal of proceedings. A committee appointed by the Chhattisgarh government to “review cases against Scheduled Tribes and other residents of the Naxal region in the state” is set to begin its work this month. It will look at cases...
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The People's Economists -Shobhini Mukerji
-The Indian Express This year’s Nobel laureates shone the light on ways to address poverty As a young research associate, I stopped at a roadside dhaba with my boss, me armed with hand-sanitiser and a spoon, while my boss dug in to a plate of fish with her hands, devoured it down to the bones, washed her hands at the public sink, and proceeded to the car. My boss was Esther...
More »Officials under pressure to meet toilet construction targets -Divya Trivedi
-Frontline.in Little seems to have improved in the five years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to make India open-defecation free (ODF) under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) by the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2. Confounding government claims of Madhya Pradesh being ODF, two Dalit minors, Roshni (12) and Avinash (10), were lynched to death in Shivpuri district by their upper-caste neighbours on September 25 for...
More »Income tax department releases data on crorepati taxpayers -Nikhil Agarwal
-Livemint.com * India's super-rich club of those earning above Rs.500 crore has only 3 individuals * Over 1.7 lakh people had filed income tax returns with zero income in 2017-18 NEW DELHI: If data from the income tax department's records is taken into account, India had more than 97,000 people earning a taxable income of over ?1 crore in the financial year 2017-18. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has now come out...
More »India slips to 102nd rank in Global Hunger Report, behind Nepal, Pak, Bangladesh
-The Indian Express The report, prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe termed the level of hunger in India "serious". India slipped to 102 position in the 2019 Global Hunger Index featuring 117 countries, behind Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Over one in every five children in India is “wasted” (low weight for height), the highest for any country in the report. The share of wasting...
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