-The Indian Express According to the global MPI 2019 report released Thursday, between 2005-06 and 2015-16, India, lifted 271 million out of poverty, significantly reducing deprivations in many of the ten indicators, particularly in “assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition”. India has registered the fastest absolute reduction in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) value among ten countries, spanning every developing region, whose combined population is two billion people. And Jharkhand is...
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Every number in Budget is authentic, says Sitharaman amid row over disparity in GDP figures
-The Indian Express The Economic Survey, released by Chief Economic Advisor S Krishnamurathy a day before the Union Budget, pegged the nominal GDP growth at 12 per cent while the budget projected it at 11 per cent. New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Wednesday dismissed speculations surrounding the GDP figures quoted in the Union Budget, saying “every number is authentic”. Replying to the debate on her maiden Union Budget in the Lok...
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-IANS Former Gujarat BJP MP Dinu Bogha Solanki has been convicted in the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethva. The CBI judge had to twice seek security for self and family while hearing the case A Special Court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) here on Saturday convicted former Gujarat BJP MP Dinu Bogha Solanki in the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethva. The court also convicted six others in the...
More »Bank Frauds Zoom to Rs 71,500 Crore in 2018-19
-PTI A total of 6,800 cases of fraud were reported by scheduled commercial banks and some financial institutions in last fiscal, the RBI said in an RTI query. New Delhi: Over 6,800 cases of bank fraud involving an unprecedented Rs 71,500 crore have been reported in 2018-19, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said. A total of 5,916 such cases were reported by banks in 2017-18 involving Rs 41,167.03 crore, it said. As...
More »The politician and the machine -SY Quraishi
-DNA The unaddressed question is what happens when the VVPAT count doesn’t match the EVM count The general elections 2019 is moving towards closure, with six out of seven phases already over. All eyes are now on the counting. It is not surprising that the issue of counting of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) has become hot once again. The decision to introduce VVPATs as a measure to make electronic voting machines...
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