-Newsclick.in PM Modi - who promised to create 1 crore jobs - is supremely indifferent to this crushing crisis. In Jind district of Haryana, 8 posts of peon and one post of process server were advertised. Authorities were inundated with 14,836 applications for the former and 3662 for the latter. That’s about 2055 applicants per vacancy. Although the peon’s position required just class 10 eligibility, graduates, post graduates and even PhD...
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Water-scarce Bundelkhand: Clashes, anxiety as stray cattle take over fields -Sarah Hafeez
-The Indian Express A water-scarce region, Bundelkhand has been battling drought, debt and poverty for over a decade. In the past three years, “anna pashu (stray cattle)” has been added to the list, now building up to a serious crisis. The cattle have started endangering the Rabi crop. Hamirpur (Uttar Pradesh): On December 25, to mark former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday with ‘gau sewa’, Uma Kant, the director of BNV...
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-The Times of India JAIPUR: To reduce the level of stunting, undernutrition, anemia and low birth weight in babies, the Centre has included 24 districts of Rajasthan in the first phase of National Nutrition Mission (NMM), which is expected to be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jhunjhunu on January 22. In the first phase, 315 districts from different states will be taken up. In the second, 235 districts will be...
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-PTI So far, the benefits of the scheme have reached 10,000 women approximately, says govt The Centre is trying to make the maternity benefit programme, which has been marred by delay, 'fully functional' by February-end, a senior official said on Monday. The top economists of the country wrote to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley last month flagging the delay in the rollout of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), which promises pregnant and...
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-TheCitizen.in What prompted me to write this piece is this picture. This picture is doing rounds on the social media and is being celebrated by overnight sympathisers for the Muslim cause. People who haven’t uttered a word of condemnation to the killings of Akhlaq, Junaid or Afrazul, but on the contrary have shown covert support to the culprits. Suddenly, with the passage of The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage)...
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