-Scroll.in On Thursday, the Act was extended for another six months in Nagaland. The Assam Rifles men at the Ramva village Post were used to being welcomed by the villagers and asked to join Christmas celebrations. This year, too, they went to Ramva bearing Christmas gifts: two new volleyballs and a net. They were shocked when the villagers refused to accept the gifts. Then the Assam Rifles men tried to pose for a...

-Scroll.in Medical admissions have been paralysed by the government’s inability to offer a rationale for the income criteria used to define economically weaker sections For nearly two weeks now, hospital services in Delhi have been crippled by a strike by resident doctors over the deadlock in admissions to Postgraduate medical courses. On Monday, the police allegedly thrashed and detained protesting doctors, registering a case against them, which prompted their association to announce...

-NDTV.com Over 32 lakh are registered as unemployed in Madhya Pradesh even though around 1 lakh government jobs are lying vacant. Bhopal: Fifteen job openings for peons, drivers and watchmen in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior saw nearly 11,000 unemployed young men flock to the city on Saturday and Sunday not just from within the state but also neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. Although the jobs needed candidates who had cleared the 10th-grade exams, applicants included graduates,...

-The Hindu Far from pushing for social and economic equality, the state is fanning systems and principles to strengthen the divide The latest edition of the World Inequality Report (https://bit.ly/3Fx8vv4 and https://bit.ly/3EvazlY) has confirmed that the world continues to sprint down the path of inequality. “Global multimillionaires have captured a disproportionate share of global wealth growth over the past several decades: the top 1% took 38% of all additional wealth accumulated since...

-The New Indian Express The report, however, added that Uttar Pradesh ranked at the top in terms of incremental performance by registering the highest incremental change from the base year. NEW DELHI: A health index report by the government's top think-tank Niti Aayog has ranked Kerala, followed by Tamil Nadu and Telangana as the best performing states and Uttar Pradesh as the worst state for the year 2019-20. The parameters used for rankings...