-PTI Inflation in 'fuel and power' basket in September was 16.65 per cent Inflation based on wholesale prices rose to a two-month high of 5.13 per cent in September, mainly due to hardening of food prices and rise in cost of petrol and diesel. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation stood at 4.53 per cent in August and 3.14 per cent in September last year. According to the government Data released Monday, food...
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120 crore Aadhaar Records Breached in First Half of 2018:: Gemalto
-Moneylife.in During the first half of 2018, there were 945 Data breaches leading to 4.5 billion (450 crore) Data records being compromised. According to the Breach Level Index of digital security firm Gemalto, India's Aadhaar witnessed 1.2 billion (120 crore) Data breaches in March, making it the second highest breaches across the world after Facebook. During the first half of 2018, there were 945 Data breaches leading to 4.5 billion (450 crore)...
More »21% Indian children are under-weight: Global Hunger Index -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu They have extremely low weight for their height; the only country with a higher prevalence of child wasting is war-torn South Sudan. New Delhi: At least one in five Indian children under the age of five are wasted, which means they have extremely low weight for their height, reflecting acute under-nutrition, according to the Global Hunger Index 2018. The only country with a higher prevalence of child wasting is the...
More »12 courts set up to try MPs and MLAs, Centre informs Supreme Court
-The Hindu Chief secretaries, registrars general of High Courts will be liable for non-compliance. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upped the ante on the States, Union Territories and High Courts which have not provided it with details of criminal cases pending against sitting lawmakers, warning that their Chief Secretaries and Registrars General will be made personally liable for non-compliance. The Centre informed the court that so far a dozen such courts had...
More »No, we can't compare Global Hunger Index rankings between two reports
Like last year, this year too journalists and media persons have compared India's Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranking vis-à-vis its position in previous years. Even the social media is buzzing with commentaries on the fallen GHI ranking of the country. The question remains whether such a comparison is possible. The newly released report entitled 2018 Global Hunger Index: Forced Migration and Hunger clearly says that the GHI scores are comparable within...
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