-Down to Earth The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been misusing their sense of social commitment 50-year-old Saraswati Kaushik’s day starts at 5 am. After preparing food for the family and an hour or two of farm work, she goes for home visits in her ‘para’ (locality) to check on pregnant mothers, infants, kids below five years of age, elderly people in need of treatment...
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COVID mismanagement worsened unemployment problem -Santosh Mehrotra
-Deccan Herald What the 2020 annual Periodic Labour Force Survey data reveals is that the situation remains grim The COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened what was already a joblessness crisis in early 2020. The third annual labour force survey (2019-20) by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), covering the period till June 30, 2020, told a grim story. Earlier, the NSSO had in 2017-18 reported that open unemployment had reached a 45-year...
More »Poor Economics: Has India’s poverty really fallen? -Santosh Mehrotra & Jajati Parida
-Financial Express Dataset and methodological weaknesses cast doubt on recent poverty estimates that claim drastic reduction Bhalla, Bhasin and Virmani in a working paper (IMF), claimed India’s poverty, per a $1.9 per person per day poverty line (at PPP), was 0.9% of the population in 2020. Thanks to government transfer of free rations of 5 kg per person month, it fell to 0.8% (from 0.9% in 2019). Roy and de Velt, for...
More »India logs 3,303 COVID-19 cases, 39 fatalities
-PTI/ The Telegraph An increase of 701 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours India on Thursday reported 3,303 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its tally to 4,30,68,799, while the active cases increased to 16,980, according to Union health ministry data. The daily cases crossed the 3,000-mark after 46 days. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 5,23,693 with 39 more fatalities, the data updated at...
More »Painkiller indomethacin to fight mild COVID-19, say researchers -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Drug helps patients recover from fever in an average of three days and from cough in four days A painkiller called indomethacin prescribed for arthritis and spondylitis is an effective treatment for mild or moderate COVID-19, Chennai-based researchers have told India’s apex health research agency, seeking its inclusion in COVID-19 treatment guidelines. The researchers have submitted what they claim are “striking” study results, indicating that patients of mild or moderate COVID-19...
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