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Population populism: Assam’s population control policy: A misguided approach? -Akhil Ranjan Dutta

-Down to Earth The attempt on the part of the incumbent government, to project the Bengali Muslim community as a civilisational threat to Assam’s indigenous communities is not going to help Debates on population control gained momentum in the state of Assam after the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government assumed power in the state in May 2021. From the beginning of his tenure, the chief minister has been asserting that his government stands for...

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Banks turn cautious on student Loans -Sangeetha Kandavel and Sanjay Vijayakumar

-The Hindu There has been sharp rise in the NPAs amid COVID-19 pandemic With unemployment rising, the ability of those who have taken education Loans to pay back has come down sharply. As a result, the non-performing assets (NPAs) have increased in the last one-and-a-half years. R. Nagarajan had taken a Loan for his engineering course and started repaying it when he got a job at a start-up in the second half of...

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Last resort: Indians in distress are selling gold & third wave could only make it worse -Swansy Afonso

-ThePrint.in The likelihood of financial distress caused by the 2nd wave is much higher & it could lead to more outright sales of gold, unlike in 2020, when people chose to take out Loans against gold. Mumbai: Paul Fernandes, a 50-year-old waiter in India, last year took out a Loan using his gold as collateral to pay for his children’s education after losing his job on a cruise liner. This year, he...

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Farm Loan waiver for COVID-19 victims in Karnataka

-The Hindu Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa will make the announcement soon, says Co-operation Minister S.T. Somashekar Bengaluru: Co-operation Minister S.T. Somashekar on July 14 said the government would soon announce a waiver of ₹79.47 crore in farm Loans borrowed by 10,187 farmers in Karnataka who succumbed to COVID-19. Loans borrowed from apex, district credit cooperative banks and primary agricultural cooperative societies (PACS) would be waived. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa would formally announce the...

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UP law panel moots proposals to promote two-child norm -Omar Rashid

-The Hindu Bar on government jobs and welfare benefits for those who have more children. The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has prepared a proposed draft Bill for population control, under which a two-child norm will be implemented and promoted. After the law comes into force, a person with more than two children will be debarred from several benefits such as government-sponsored welfare schemes and from contesting elections to the local authority or...

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