-The Hindu Karnataka has over 6,00,000 small industries that employ over 70 lakh people Bengaluru: If the Union government fails to come up with precautionary measures to minimise the impact of the economic slowdown on the MSME (Micro Small & Medium Enterprises) sector, at least 30 lakh people will go jobless in Karnataka, cautions industry apex body, KASSIA (Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association). “The recession is no more a fear, but a...
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NRC applicants hit by lack of government records -Naresh Mitra
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: Many NRC applicants in Assam who had submitted refugee registration certificates to back their residency claims are in a fix after the authorities rejected 60 out of every 100 such documents on grounds of unavailability of corresponding records with the government to corroborate their authenticity. “This is just a conservative estimate. The number could be higher,” said an official involved in the process of updating the NRC...
More »Southern States Say Modi's Idea of Curbing Population Growth 'Unacceptable' as Problem Lies Only in North -Deepa Balakrishnan
-News18.com Hours after Narendra Modi tweeted about the issue of population explosion, activists from the southern region highlighted the huge mismatch in population growth between the north and the south. Bengaluru/ Trivandrum: India's southern states are quite perturbed by the call for a national ‘scheme’ to control population explosion, an idea expressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech last week. Their concern is, if there are any...
More »Rain fury this year deadlier than earlier, toll already over 1,000 -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Flood fury across much of India has already claimed 1,058 lives this monsoon, close to last year’s overall toll of 1,211. Over 150 people have died in Kerala, the second-highest after Maharashtra (245 deaths), as it faces extraordinary damage with authorities being forced to release water from dams because of torrential rain. The flood death counts are increasing year on year: from 936 in 2016...
More »Data on AES related deaths in Bihar during May-June this year is fraught with confusion
In the month of June this year, encephalitis related deaths in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district grabbed the headlines. Actually, most of the children, who were admitted or died at Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), hailed from East Champaran, Vaishali, Sitamarhi and Samastipur apart from Muzaffarpur. Unfortunately, till recently official data on the number of cases and deaths related to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) was unavailable for...
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