-The Hindu Pandits, Dogras and Buddhists demand maintenance of current population status, rights over land With the revoking of the special status of Kashmir, Pandits, Dogras and Buddhists have made separate demands for domicile laws in the proposed Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The reasons they cite include the need to maintain the current population status, ensuring jobs for local people and the rights over land use. BJP State spokesman...
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India's population growing but not exploding; Narendra Modi's new found concern can be used to communalise issue India -Vivian Fernandes
-Firstpost.com Is there a population explosion as Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted in his Independence Day speech? India's population grew by 17.64 percent between 2001 and 2011 to 1,210.9 million. This is faster than China’s 5.43 percent population growth during the same period. But, the last decade was also the first time after 1911-21 when India added fewer numbers than the previous decade. India’s population is increasing but at a slower pace. The...
More »Monarchy to long-term CM to instability: how did Sikkim get here? -Esha Roy
-The Indian Express Political instability is new to this relatively young state, where Chamling served as Chief Minister for 25 years starting 1994. New Delhi: Last week, Sikkim’s longest serving Chief Minister, Pawan Chamling, became the sole elected OppoSITion representative in the Assembly after the remaining 12 Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) MLAs defected, with 10 joining the BJP and another two joining the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM). Political instability is...
More »The very idea of the NRC is wrong -Prabhat Patnaik
-The Telegraph Its only usefulness could be to determine how Assam might be recompensed for coping with the magnitude of immigration Boris Johnson is no vaishnavite saint; nor is he a leftist internationalist. According to Donald Trump people see him as the “British Trump” and, judging by the cabinet he has picked as prime minister, with a hard-Right home secretary, and the company he kept during the Brexit referendum which included Nigel...
More »Data on AES related deaths in Bihar during May-June this year is fraught with confusion
In the month of June this year, encephalitis related deaths in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district grabbed the headlines. Actually, most of the children, who were admitted or died at Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), hailed from East Champaran, Vaishali, SITamarhi and Samastipur apart from Muzaffarpur. Unfortunately, till recently official data on the number of cases and deaths related to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) was unavailable for...
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