-NDTV.com The Delhi Government's One Delhi app can be used to book tickets for all buses, INCluding e-buses, in less than a minute, while electric bus charging points will soon be installed in every bus depot in the city. New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, as he flagged off Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC)'s first electric bus on Monday, has promised that a fleet of 300 e-buses will be operational by April,...
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India’s Economic System Rigged in Favour of the Super-Rich, Says Oxfam Report -Ditsa Bhattacharya
-Newsclick.in The report points out that in India, during the pandemic the wealth of billionaires INCreased from Rs 23.14 lakh crore to Rs 53.16 lakh crore. At the same time, more than 4.6 crore Indians are estimated to have fallen into extreme poverty in 2020. While 84% of households in India suffered a decline in their INCome in a year marked by the tremendous loss of life and livelihoods, the number of...
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-The Telegraph The police as the arbiters of communication For a country with serious challenges to tackle, the amount of time and energy of government agencies and courts that is now spent on offence-taking and conspiracy-chasing borders on the ludicrous. Through 2021, the police in various parts of the country sought to criminalize news gathering as well as social media expressions, registering first information reports indiscriminately under various sections of the Criminal...
More »China's population grows by less than half-a-million in 2021; birth rate falls for 5th consecutive year
-PTI/ The New Indian Express The figure does not INClude Hong Kong and Macao residents and foreigners who live in the mainland's 31 provINCes, autonomous regions, and municipalities, the NBS said. BEIJING: China's population grew by less than half a million-last year to 1.41 billion as the birth rates fell for the fifth consecutive year, stoking fears of a looming demographic crisis and its adverse impact on the world's 2nd largest economy. At...
More »INCome of 84% Indian households fell in 2021 while 40 new billionaires emerged: Oxfam report
-Scroll.in The non-profit group said that while the wealth of Indian billionaires rose by Rs 30 lakh crore during pandemic, over 4.6 crore people fell to extreme poverty. The INCome of 84% Indian households declined in 2021 while the number of billionaires in the country grew from 102 to 142 during the last year, non-profit group Oxfam said in a report released on Sunday. In its report titled “Inequality Kills”, Oxfam said that...
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