-The Telegraph West Bengal Government shut down schools and colleges again from January 3 Vaccination for students aged 15 to 18 has begun School students in West Bengal who returned to the campus after a 20-month break in November are back behind the screen amid a surge in COVID cases across the country. Achal Sarkar, a student of Class XI at St. Xavier’s Institution, Panihati, had been looking forward to school reopening after the...
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Centre suspends biometric attendance for govt employees as Covid cases spike
-Livemint.com Biometric attendance for Government officials and employees is being suspended with immediate effect, till further orders, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said The biometric attendance at all Government offices has been suspended in the view of rising COVID cases, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said. However, all the employees are required to mark their attendance in attendance registers to be maintained manually, an order issued by the Personnel Ministry said. “Keeping in...
More »Number Theory: A data wish-list for the New Year -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times 2021 was supposed to be the year of the decadal census in India. This exercise has not been delayed even once until 2011 since 1881, when India conducted its first full census. Every day, the data and political economy team of the Hindustan Times brings you stories we call Number Theory. They are based on databases from India and sometimes even abroad. We will continue to do this in the...
More »MSMEs: Engines of growth for new India -M Srikanth and KG Suresh
-The Hindu Business Line From easing access to credit to leveraging the PLI scheme, MSMEs can tap into a range of policy initiatives In November 2021 the Government announced the Special Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme for the MSMEs (Micro Small and Medium Enterprises) in the services sector. The scheme has a provision of 25 per cent capital subsidy for procurement of service equipment through institutional credit to the SMEs for advancement...
More »Portal puts Muslim women on auction -Anita Joshua
-The Telegraph 'Bulli bai' is taken down after the victims and several Opposition politicians launch a protest A portal called “bulli bai” sought to put vocal Muslim women on auction on New Year's Day by using their social media profiles, less than six months after a similar effort had been made via the app “Sulli Deals”. “Bulli bai” was taken down after the victims and several Opposition politicians spoke out against it. Late on...
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