-The Indian Express In West Bengal, the bone of contention among political rivals for years has been the influx of nearly 1 crore people in 1971 from then East Pakistan — few returned. ASSAM AND the rest of northeast India is on the boil over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, but it is in West Bengal that the proposed legislation will play a critical part if the BJP-led central government goes ahead...
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27 students across 10 IITs ended their lives in five years: RTI
-The Indian Express As per the data provided by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, IIT Madras tops the list with suicides by seven students during this period. Twenty seven students across 10 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country have committed suicide in the last five years, reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed. As per the data provided by the Department of Higher Education working...
More »For 5 years now, CSIR has not made its annual reports public -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line India’s largest public-funded research institution, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has not made its annual reports and account details public for the past five years, a major departure from a norm practised for decades. The CSIR has not submitted its annual reports to Parliament since 2013-14 even though some insiders claim the institution has prepared these reports and had its accounts audited every year. Please click...
More »India ranks 129 out of 189 countries & territories in terms of human development index for 2018
-United Nations Development Programme, released on 9 December, 2019 According to the Human Development Report 2019: Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century, India’s HDI value for 2018 is 0.647— which put the country in the medium human development category—positioning it at 129 out of 189 countries and territories. Between 1990 and 2018, India’s HDI value increased from 0.431 to 0.647, an increase of 50.0 percent. Between 1990 and 2018, India’s...
More »Economic slump: India's rickety bridge over troubled waters -Dev Kar
-TheWire.in Sustaining growth amidst a global economic slowdown would require tackling corruption. Raghuram Rajan, the-then outgoing Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, in an exit interview he granted to Karan Thapar (‘To The Point’, YouTube, September 2, 2016), took satisfaction from the fact that India was “on a more sustainable growth path”. The remark turned out to be premature. Less than two years later, starting the first quarter of FY 18/19, ominous...
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