-The Hindu It has drafted a detailed plan for 2016-17 with different themes. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government will mark its second anniversary with all the Ministries taking mass pledges on the Swachh Bharat portal on May 26 this year. In a bid to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project Swachh Bharat Mission a mass movement, the government has drafted a detailed plan for every day of 2016-17 with different themes...
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Enemy At The Aadhaar Gates -Gopal Krishna
-Outlook The structural basis is being laid out for future authoritarianism at the behest of foreign biometric and surveillance technology What distinguishes Barack Obama and David Cameron from Narendra Modi? Obama and Cameron oppose biometric identification but Modi supports it. On 11 May 2005 in the US, the Real ID Act for a national ID was rushed through US Congress and the US Senate with utmost urgency, a legacy of George Bush...
More »Ballia village tense as 150 students fall ill after consuming MDM -Rajeev Dikshit
-The Times of India VARANASI: About 150 students of Bahadurpur primary school of Haldi area in Ballia district fell ill after consuming mid-day meal (MDM) on Saturday afternoon. Angered over the incident villagers attacked the school. Following initial scuffle with principal and Teachers they locked themselves inside the rooms of school to save themselves from the angry mob of locals. All students were rushed to the district hospital where their condition started...
More »Why we post on social media -Ramya Kannan
-The Hindu Anthropologists study how local populations network in different parts of the globe Love it, or hate it, it is rare that you will ignore social media. A few anthropologists from across the world took this seriously enough to conduct an eight-country in-depth analysis on how local populations behave and interact across social media and how these platforms are impacting the way we live life. “Why we Post” is the culmination of...
More »Job scheme in decline -Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
-Frontline.in The increase in the budgetary allocation for the MGNREGA is only marginal. The scheme helped lower the poverty level by 32 per cent between 2004-05 and 2011-12, but government support for it has been declining sTeadily. In the beginning, economists belonging to the Right and the Left were of the view that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was merely a populist measure. While the former believed...
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