-The Times of India IMPHAL: It is hard to believe that the state, mostly in the news for reports of armed conflicts, has been achieving the country's lowest infant mortality rate (IMR) consecutively for the last three years — standing tall amidst other conventionally well-equipped states. According to the health ministry report, Manipur's IMR stands at nine deaths per 1000 live births. The national IMR, according to the latest available data,...
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CIC backlog grows as vacancies remain unfilled -Vidya Venkat
-The Hindu Of the 18,518 cases registered as appeals, 13,796 were returned to appellants There are a whopping 24,302 cases related to information appeals pending with the Central Information Commission as on Thursday, according to the CIC website. This backlog is in spite of the fact that the Commission is returning a majority of appeals coming to it, citing lack of documentation, premature appeals or forwarding of cases to the relevant State...
More »DeMo was ethically flawed -A Srinivas & Sandhya Rao
-The Hindu Business Line The possible gain arising out of tax compliance has come at too high a human cost ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ – Benjamin Disraeli After the RBI’s latest revelations — of 99 per cent of the extinguished currency having returned to the banks — media pundits and economists have wasted no time in saying that efforts to obliterate black money have failed. However,...
More »55,000 Anganwadi workers to get smartphones for better performance
-The New Indian Express VIJAYAWADA: Over 55,000 Anganwadi workers in the State will get smartphones from the Central government soon. Already, training for the use of those smartphones has commenced from September 1 and in a phased manner, the smartphones will be issued to the Anganwadi workers from the first week of October. The smartphones -- Karbonn smartphones -- are keeping in tune with ‘Make In India’ concept of the Centre. ...
More »Press corps condemns death threats to women journalists
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) and the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) have strongly condemned the murder earlier this week of Bengaluru journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. IWPC also expressed grave concern at the language used in a Facebook post threatening violence against Delhi journalist Sagarika Ghose. A day after Lankesh's killing, an individual, going by the name of VikramAditya Rana, allegedly circulated a Facebook post calling...
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