-The Hindu The facilities, to be set up in containers, can be sent by rail or air to any part of country. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said the recently launched PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, with an outlay of more than ₹64,000 crore, is aimed at filling critical gaps in public health infrastructure, especially in critical care and primary care facilities in both urban and rural areas. Speaking at...
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Updated NPR form appears to retain contentious questions -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu 14 parameters include mother tongue, place of birth of parents and last place of residence. The latest form of the National Population Register (NPR) appears to have retained contentious questions such as “mother tongue, place of birth of father and mother and last place of residence”, according to a document compiled by a committee under the Registrar General of india and shared with District Census officers. Though NPR was first compiled...
More »How Suburban, Rural Youth are Being Sucked Into Instant Loan Apps ‘Trap’ -Sashwata Saha
-Newsclick.in Harassment by loan recovery agents hired by these apps has led to at least 21 suicides across india between 2020 and 2021. Meghna Patel took her first loan early in 2020 from an app called FlyCash, whose ads she had been seeing on Facebook. It was a small amount. Just Rs 500. She had to repay Rs 550, two weeks later. The app even had a borrowing limit of Rs 1,000. Recently,...
More »In Glasgow, all eyes on 2030 -D Raghunandan
-The Hindu COP26 must focus sharply on reducing emissions till 2030, rather than on net zero 2050, which is too distant a goal The stage is set for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, starting October 31. Major preparatory conferences and bilateral meetings have been held to persuade countries to raise their emission reduction commitments from the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. Some...
More »Under Modi, Tax Burden has Shifted from Corporates to People -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in And, dipping customs collections show easing of imports, which is destroying indian producers. It was once famously said that the executive (government) is nothing but a committee to manage the affairs of the ruling class in any society. The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government is a fine example of this truth. The open and brazen way in which it has worked to the advantage of india’s powerful corporate sector has...
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