-The Indian Express Judiciary has become another institution where Muslims are more and more under-represented While the percentage of Muslims in prison has never been higher — 21 per cent — the proportion of Muslims convicted — 15.8 per cent — is closer to their share of the population (14.2 per cent in the 2011 Census). This indicates that many Muslims arrested by the police and charged end up being acquitted, usually...
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Demonetisation findings accessed: Eight reasons why BJP wants DeMo report buried
-TimesNowNews.com Times Now has accessed the demonetisation draft report which has upset the BJP, whose MPs want the report suppressed. And there are eight reasons why the BJP doesn’t want to face the report in Parliament. New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by Congress leader Veerappa Moily, has concluded in its draft report that demonetisation, announced by the Narendra Modi government in November 2016, had led to at...
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-PTI New Delhi: The National Statistical Commission (NSC) has sought public comments on a panel report which showed that the economy grew at fastest pace under the Congress rule, amid a political row over the growth numbers. The report of the panel, constituted by the NSC, was made public last week. The government has maintained that the GDP Back Series Report 2011 was an unofficial document that has not been accepted by it....
More »Modi govt: Don't quote report that showed higher GDP growth under UPA than NDA -Mahua Venkatesh
-ThePrint.in Report by government-backed panel has pegged average growth under UPA at 8%, higher than that during 4 years under NDA. New Delhi: The Modi government has said that a GDP report that showed higher growth during the UPA years than under four years of NDA rule is only a draft and “should not be quoted anywhere”. The back-series GDP growth report was published on the website of the Ministry of Statistics and...
More »Congress uses revised GDP data to defend UPA's economic record -Anuja
-Livemint.com The UPA delivered the highest decadal growth (8.13% at factor cost) since India acquired independence and handed over an Indian economy on the upswing in 2014, says former finance minister P. Chidambaram New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday defended the record of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on the basis of recently published back series data on gross domestic product (GDP). At a press conference today, former finance minister P. Chidambaram...
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