-Behanbox.com New Delhi: The sex ratio of the National Capital Territory of Delhi has been consistently skewed over three decades, shows a BehanBox analysis. The reason for this lies in the Capital’s location, right in the middle of a “cultural and geographical continuum” where gender preferential practices are rampant, say demographic experts. Delhi’s sex ratio is 913 women per 1,000 men, as per the latest and fifth round of National Family Health...
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Foeticide: More ‘Missing’ Girls Among Hindus Than Muslims in Last Two Decades, Official Data Shows -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in Researchers have used government data to find that nine million girls went ‘missing’ in 20 years in India. New Delhi: Hindus have the highest number of missing girls attributable to female foeticide in India, a new research report prepared by the Pew Research Centre has revealed. The researchers got their data from the last three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), including the fifth and latest one (2019-2020). The NFHS...
More »About 300 branches of PSU banks to be opened in these states by Dec 2022
-PTI/ Livemint.com Among these 300 new branches, the maximum number of PSU banks will be opened in Rajasthan with 95 branches, followed by 54 in Madhya Pradesh, 38 in Gujarat, 33 in Maharashtra, 32 in Jharkhand, and 31 in Uttar Pradesh. About 300 brick-and-mortar branches of public sector banks will be opened in the unbanked areas of various states by December 2022, according to sources as quoted by the news agency PTI....
More »India: Why are suicides among farmers on the increase? -Murali Krishnan
-Deutsche Welle/ The Telegraph Financial burdens caused by climate change and government polices have led to an rise in the number of suicides among agricultural workers, experts say. The Maharashtra state has suffered more than most New Delhi: In India, over 600 farmers in the region of Marathwada, Maharashtra state, have died from suicide this year, according to official figures, with a majority of deaths blamed on rains that damaged thousands of...
More »On the margins -Dibyendu Chaudhuri and Parijat Ghosh
-The Telegraph Seventy-five years of planned development have not helped in the betterment of the adivasi community Adivasis living in Central India make up one of the most marginalised sections in the country. But they live in the most resource-rich areas that attract industrialists and the State. Although scheduled tribes constitute 8.6% of the total Population, they make up 50% of the people who have been displaced or dispossessed from their land...
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