-IANS/ Siasat.com Rumana had ranked fifth in the 2019 Madhyamik exams by securing 687 marks out of 700 Kolkata: Though the west bengal Council for Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) — the board responsible for conducting Higher Secondary exams in the state — did not release any merit list because no formal exams were held this year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the marks scored by the students on the basis...
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An irrational draft population control Bill that must go -Dipa Sinha and Vandana Prasad
-The Hindu The Uttar Pradesh government should understand that evidence backs the principle of informed free choice Many of us working in the field of public health and social development have been taken aback, if not downright shocked, by the recently announced draft Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill, 2021 that focuses exclusively on making a two-child norm a law, specifying various incentives and penalties for contravention. The burgeoning negative...
More »Vaccination Shortfall: India's 5 Best And Worst States -Debanish Achom
-NDTV.com COVID-19: Kerala and Delhi have a vaccination target shortfall of 22 per cent, while Bihar falls short by 71 per cent, and Rajasthan and Bengal by 66 per cent New Delhi: Kerala and Delhi have the least number of shortfall in COVID-19 vaccination while Bihar, Rajasthan and west bengal have the highest inoculation shortfall, according to an analysis of publicly available data. The shortfall in a state is calculated as a...
More »In a passing, the larger picture of dispossession -Chitrangada Choudhury
-The Hindu Blaming ‘the system’ alone for Father Stan Swamy’s death obscures how India’s political economy is linked to deprival When an officer from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) came to interrogate Father Stan Swamy last monsoon, the Jesuit sociologist, then 83, in turn asked him about police integrity, and why a father-son duo (P. Jayaraj and Bennicks) should die of custodial torture in a Tamil Nadu police lock-up. It was quintessential...
More »More than one in 10 women in India ‘ran out of food’ during lockdown: Report
-IANS/ Siasat.com Pandemic exacerbated women's nutritional challenges, as an additional 3.2 crore reported being worried about food sufficiency in their households New Delhi: More than one in 10, or nearly 3.2 crore women in India “limited their food intake or ran out of food” during the Covid-induced lockdown last year, finds a report. The report, titled ‘Impacts of Covid-19 on women in low-income households in India’ conducted by social impact advisory group Dalberg,...
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