-Article-14.com india’s 380 million informal workers will be registered on a new database that will allow, says the government, social security payments. It isn’t working as it should because the government insists on Aadhaar, which many workers do not have. Others do not know of it, and if they do, may not be digitally literate, and it isn’t clear what entitlements will follow for workers whose data are being collected. New Delhi:...
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'Missing' Forests in india: Around 26 Million Hectare Forest Cover Not Accounted For in the Official Report
-Newsclick.in india's recorded forest cover stands at 77.53 million ha. The forest cover on these lands is estimated to be 51.66 million ha- as much as 34% of the area classified as forests (25.87 million ha) is missing in the assessment. A Down To Earth (DTE) analysis has revealed many holes in the forest cover estimations of the recently released The india State of Forest Report 2021 (ISFR 2021). As per DTE,...
More »Priests of Chidambaram Nataraja temple in Tamil Nadu booked under SC/ST Act - Pramod Madhav
-indiaToday.in Police have booked 20 priests in Tamil Nadu’s Chidambaram Nataraja temple under the SC/ST Act for stopping a woman from getting onto a platform to pray. They also falsely accused her of stealing a vessel. Chennai: Twenty priests employed at Chidambaram Natarajar temple in Tamil Nadu were booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 for stopping a scheduled caste woman from praying while standing on...
More »A tale of two Bundelkhands: UP cuts a sorry figure compared to MP in all sectors, data shows -Shraddha Yadav, Vikash Vaibhav, and Varun Kumar Das
-ThePrint.in MP-Bundelkhand is silently increasing its economic might, powered by its agricultural sector. Growth in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand, on the other hand, has stagnated. With the ongoing assembly election in Uttar Pradesh ready to witness the third phase of polling on 20 February, covering the Bundelkhand region, we shift our focus towards the economies of a region that is often ignored in economic discussions. Earlier, we looked into Western and Eastern regions...
More »Tamil Nadu says ‘no’ in Supreme Court to neutrino observatory project
-The Hindu ‘It will damage Western Ghats’ Tamil Nadu has made clear to the Supreme Court that it does not want the indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be set up in a sensitive ecological zone in the Western Ghats at great cost to wildlife, biodiversity, and by ignoring the local opposition and public agitations to the project. The State said the project would be a source of distress to the shy tigers and...
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