-MoneyLife.in Responding to a question raised by Rajya Sabha MP (member of parliament) Subramanian Swamy, the finance ministry informed the parliament that Rs10,720 crore worth of old Rs1,000 and Rs500 notes did not return into circulation after demonetisation. &NBSp; According to the finance ministry, when demonetisation was announced on 8 November 2016, Rs15,41,793 crore worth of withdrawn notes were in circulation. The finance ministry revealed in its written reply that, after verification and...
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Environment ministry finalises coal thermal power plant categories: What does it say about emission norms compliance -Anubha Aggarwal
-Down to Earth The Union ministry releases list of coal thermal power plants and their categorisation in line with its April 2021 notification Nearly 78 per cent of the electricity generated in India from coal will not meet emission norms before 2024. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has released a draft list of the coal thermal power plants and their categorisation in line with the ministry’s April 2021...
More »The children who quietly dropped out of school -Johanna Deeksha
-Scroll.in The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns disrupted the education of millions of students in India. When schools reopened, many never went back. At 10 am on a Tuesday in November, a group of children aged around 7 walked slowly towards their school in Mudnal Dhodu Thaanda, a Banjara community settlement in North Karnataka’s Yadgir district. The children were dressed in their school uniform: light blue shirts and dark blue skirts and pants....
More »What rising inequality means -S Irudaya Rajan and Udaya S Mishra
-The Hindu Redistribution measures have been ineffective and there are no policies discouraging accumulation of income and wealth The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the stark divide between the rich and the poor. At this juncture, evaluating the state of inequality serves as an eye-opener on the income/wealth divides prevailing across regions. Such divides are represented in terms of the share of income/wealth among the top 10% of the population against the bottom...
More »22 Muslims killed in UP police firing during CAA protests, but no FIR lodged even after two years -Syed Zubair Ahmad
-MuslimMirror.com Lucknow/ Delhi: “Two years passed, but I can’t forget my son yelling and whining in pain on road after he was hit by police bullet…He was bleeding profusely… died of excess bleeding,” Shareef’s &NBSp;voice choked in pain while describing about the death of his son Raees (30) who was allegedly killed in police firing during protest against CAA-NCR-NPR in Kanpur on December 21. He added, “Life has become hell…We are still...
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