-The Telegraph If the estimates are correct, it would become the country with the highest death toll, well ahead of around 800,000 deaths so far in the US and 600,000 in Brazil India’s Covid-19 mortality is six to eight times higher than official counts, research released on Wednesday has estimated, reinforcing through a novel methodology earlier suggestions that undercounting had masked the true ferocity of the second wave. The study has estimated that...
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Priests of Chidambaram Nataraja temple in Tamil Nadu booked under SC/ST Act - Pramod Madhav
-IndiaToday.in Police have booked 20 priests in Tamil Nadu’s Chidambaram Nataraja temple under the SC/ST Act for stopping a woman from getting onto a platform to pray. They also falsely accused her of stealing a vessel. Chennai: Twenty priests employed at Chidambaram Natarajar temple in Tamil Nadu were booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 for stopping a scheduled caste woman from praying while standing on...
More »A tale of two Bundelkhands: UP cuts a sorry figure compared to MP in all sectors, data shows -Shraddha Yadav, Vikash Vaibhav, and Varun Kumar Das
-ThePrint.in MP-Bundelkhand is silently increasing its economic might, powered by its agricultural sector. Growth in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand, on the other hand, has stagnated. With the ongoing assembly election in Uttar Pradesh ready to witness the third phase of polling on 20 February, covering the Bundelkhand region, we shift our focus towards the economies of a region that is often ignored in economic discussions. Earlier, we looked into Western and Eastern regions...
More »Govt releases draft MSME policy; proposes 8 ‘action areas’ to overhaul the sector -Sandeep Soni
-FinancialExpress.com Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: The government has highlighted eight “specific action areas” to “build a vibrant eco-system for the rapid growth of the MSME sector.” Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: The MSME Ministry has released the draft National Policy for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India, proposing multiple measures to promote competitiveness, technology upgradation, cluster and infrastructure development, procurement of MSME products and dedicated credit support....
More »Mandal vs Kamandal Redux? Caste Is Back as a Major Variable in UP Elections -Gilles Verniers and Christophe Jaffrelot
-TheWire.in BJP has now realised that Hindutva and identity politics by themselves are not enough to win. In post-Mandal India, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempt to build electoral alliances tying upper castes and non-dominant OBCs is not new. This is a strategy the party used in the mid-1990s across North India to resist the consolidation of pro-Mandal parties and prevent the formation of large coalitions of “backwards”. Mid-1990s onwards, the BJP distributed...
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