-NDTV.com Data from a SECond RTI request showed that 88 per cent of the 1.54 lakh people, or 1.35 lakh individuals, who fled the Valley since 1990 - were Kashmiri Pandits Chandigarh: Terrorists in Kashmir killed 1,724 people - of whom 89 were Kashmiri Pandits and the rest were "people of other faiths", including Muslims - over the past 31 years, the Srinagar district Police HQ said last month in response to...
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With No Central Policy, Indian Domestic Workers Left at Mercy of Varied State Laws: Global Report -Soumashree Sarkar
-TheWire.in The report by the CHRI urges India to ratify the Domestic Workers Convention or 'C189' as a step towards streamlining national protections for an enormous SECtor that is largely left to fend for itself. New Delhi: While domestic workers across the world have suffered in the COVID-19 pandemic, the astounding lack of overarching legal or policy provisions in India to safeguard their wellbeing has meant a dire downward spiral for men...
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-The Hindu Business Line Besides global factors, structural inflation, which is sticky, might be setting in. The RBI should be ready November readings for wholesale and consumer price index, the first at a three decade high and the SECond at a more modest three-month high, are a cause for concern. They raise questions over whether the Monetary Policy Committee’s projections for retail inflation will hold. A 14.2 per cent spike in WPI...
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-IANS/ National Herald The Supreme Court on Monday sought Centre's response on a plea seeking revival of vaccine public SECtor units, to boost Covid-19 vaccination amid the pandemic. A bench comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and A.S. Bopanna said: "We want to know what the policy of the government is..." The bench noted that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta wass appearing for the Centre and took note of his submissions that a reply will be...
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-The Hindu Passage blames ‘feminist revolt’ for teenage indiscipline Students, parents and national politicians have expressed outrage at the content of a reading comprehension passage in a Central Board of SECondary Education’s Class 10 English examination, held on Friday. When Anita (name changed) read the English question paper of her Class 10 Central Board of SECondary Education (CBSE) examination on Friday, she was shocked by the contents of the passage selected for a...
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