-Hindustan Times Two days before he disappeared, the Right to Information (RTI) activist had written a post on Facebook in which he mentioned such clinics. A 23-year-old journalist working on a scam involving medical clinics in Bihar’s Madhubani district was found dead days after he went missing. His burnt body was reportedly found tossed by the roadside near a village in the district. An NDTV article said Buddhinath Jha or Avinash Jha was...
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Five years after demonetisation, SC still to set up a bench to hear the petitions challenging it -Umang Poddar
-Scroll.in In December 2016, the court had said the cases would be referred to a five-judge bench It took less than 24 hours for the first set of petitions to be filed against the Modi government’s demonetisation decision. Eight weeks later, at least 41 petitions had been filed in courts across the country. But five years later, nothing has happened in the petitions. Even the Supreme Court bench that was supposed to hear...
More »Richest 20% facing more inflation than poorest 20%: Crisil
-PTI/ The Hindu The Crisil argument is based on the fact that the burden of inflation varies across different income groups, as the share of spending on food, fuel, and core categories differ across classes Extrapolating the retail inflation print for October, which inched up on-month to 4.5% from 4.3% in September, but steeply declined from 7.6% on-year, Crisil says the richest 20% of the population, who pay more on non-food or...
More »In charts: As MGNREGS funds fall short, unpaid wages are piling up -Nushaiba Iqbal
-Scroll.in/ IndiaSpend.com Across India, more than Rs 2,850 crore in wages are pending approval from the Centre for work done between April and September. India’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme provided more days of work in 2020-’21 than in any year since the programme began in 2008. But states are falling short of funds to pay workers. In three charts, we take a quick look at the current status of...
More »Pronab Sen, Programme Director for the IGC India Programme and first Chief Statistician of India, interviewed by Vikas Dhoot (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The ill-prepared move left India with all the damages and very few of the benefits On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that from midnight, ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes would no longer be considered legal tender in India. The government’s stated aim was to curb corruption and the pervasion of black money in the economy, as well as the proliferation of fake currency which was also being used...
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