-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the response of two private hospitals in the capital on a Delhi government appeal against a high court order that they were not obliged to provide free treatment to economically weaker sections. An apex court bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Arun Mishra sought the response from Sitaram Bhartia and Rockland Hospital in six weeks on the state government's contention that 25 per...
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Target NGOs: Why Greenpeace got the rough treatment -KumKum Dasgupta
-The Hindustan Times In a significant order on Tuesday, the Delhi High Court unblocked Rs 1.87 crore received by NGO Greenpeace from its Amsterdam headquarters. The NGO had filed a case after the ministry of home affairs in June last year directed the Reserve Bank of India to take prior permission of the ministry before clearing any foreign aid to the NGO from Greenpeace International and Climate Works. Saying that there is...
More »UN study predicts rising global unemployment due to slower growth, inequality, turbulence
-The United Nations An extra 10 million people worldwide are likely to be unemployed by 2019, a new United Nations report has said today, pointing to slower growth, widening inequalities and economic turbulence as reasons behind the trend. According to the World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015 (WESO) report, released today by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the next four years will see the total number of people out of...
More »Govt data on inequality misleading
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Inequality in South ASIa is much more glaring than what government data shows because standard yardsticks of measuring income don't reveal the true picture, says a World Bank report 'Addressing Inequality in South ASIa', released on Tuesday. For instance, the Gini coefficient - the standard measure to gauge income inequality - ranges from 0.28 to 0.40 in this region, suggesting a level of inequality much lower...
More »Is the demographic profile changing? -Mayank Mishra
-Business Standard Eight states and UTs have Muslim share of population in excess of national average of 13% The argument given by supporters of the ghar wapsi (homecoming) campaign is that unless corrective measures are taken up urgently, there is a danger to the existing demographic profile of the country. Many leaders of the Sangh parivar this reporter spoke to say that the way the population of some religious groups is growing,...
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