-Newslaundry.com The Hindi newspaper has aggressively spotlighted the ground realities that governments tried to hide from the public. In the afternoon on April 10 this year, the editorial team of Divya Bhaskar in Ahmedabad gathered in the office to plan the next day’s edition. One news item caught the attention of the paper’s Gujarat editor, Devendra Bhatnagar. The state BJP president, CR Patil, had claimed that he would be giving away 5,000...
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Nearly 10,000 children in country need immediate care and protection, SC informed -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Bal Swaraj said they included children aged between zero and 17 orphaned or abandoned during the pandemic since March 2020. Bal Swaraj, an online tracking portal of a national child rights body, shows details of nearly 10,000 children in the country in immediate need of care and protection. They include children aged between zero and 17 orphaned or abandoned during the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. The National Commission for Protection...
More »40% MGNREGA wage payments for April, May still pending -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Centre taking 26 days to clear payment orders generated by States: study Almost 14% of MGNREGA wage payments from April are still pending more than a month later, while 60% of May payments are also pending, according to scheme data. A recent study of the MGNREGA wage transactions in Jharkhand shows that while the States are generating fund transfer orders without delays, it is the Centre which is dragging its...
More »The inadequate food safety net -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line/ NetworkIdeas.org With India experiencing a severe second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, forcing decentralized lockdowns, a crisis of loss of jobs and livelihoods and resulting hunger is being reported from across the country. A reluctant central government has, therefore, been forced to revive the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), to distribute 5 kilograms of free foodgrain per person per month to the approximately 80 crore...
More »"Next, Sedition Case For This TV Channel?": Top Judge's Scathing Remark -A Vaidyanathan
-NDTV The exchange was hours before the same two judges put on hold Andhra Pradesh's action against two news channels and said: "It's time we define limits of sedition" New Delhi: During a hearing on the centre's oft-criticised vaccination policy, Supreme Court Justices DY Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao on Monday referred to visuals aired by NDTV of a dead body - a suspected COVID-19 patient - being dumped into a river...
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