-The Times of India GURGAON: A local RTI activist, O P Kataria, who has been actively campaigning againstGurgaon MLA Sukhbir Kataria, has accused the latter of harassing him. The MLA is clouded by a controversy over alleged fake voter ID cards in the last assembly elections. According to O P Kataria, about 10 policemen barged into his house on Tuesday morning and tried to fraudulently implicate his wife in a land case. "These...

Cash transfers are now suggested by many as a silver bullet for addressing the problems that plague India’s anti-poverty programmes. This article argues instead for evidence-based policy and informed public debate to clarify the place, prospects and problems of cash transfers in India. By drawing on key empirical findings from academic and grey literature across the world an attempt is made to draw attention to three aspects of cash transfers...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday ordered a status quo regarding acquisition of land in Gurgaon’s Ullahawas village where there had been allegations of arbitrary release of acquired land by the Haryana government. The Division Bench comprising Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Augustine George Masih issued a notice to the Haryana government asking it to respond to a petition filed by Arvind Katewa of Gurgaon Sector 5 and two...

KEY TRENDS    • The 2019 India TB report says that the country accounted for a quarter of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden with an estimated 27 lakh cases in 2018. In 2018, the country was able to achieve a total notification of 21.5 lakh TB cases, of which 25 percent was from private sector. Majority of the TB burden is among the working age group. Nearly 89 percent of TB cases came from the age group 15-69 years....