-The Hindu Reporting every death with the accurate and verifiable cause of death is essential for public health The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of deaths in India directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19 to be 4.74 million. This is the highest for any country and nine times the nation’s official count of 5,24,000 as of May 2022. The WHO numbers are derived through robust statistical methods that consider...
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All is Not Well With India's Gig Economy -Nilanjan Banik
-TheWire.in The bargain between companies and their 'employees' must become more equitable. The continuation of the Russia-Ukraine war is raising the fear of an imminent stagflation (a combination of inflation and unemployment led by a low growth). Worldwide inflation numbers are on the rise. Most sources of data are suggesting a higher inflationary regime. In March 2022, the US, the largest economy in the world, recorded a 41-year high inflation of 8.1%....
More »More Confusion, Less Benefits Mar E-Shram Registration Process -Shreya Adhikari and Debojit Dutta
-TheWire.in Across India, unorganised workers registering for the e-Shram card have to wade through rumours of monetary benefits, fear of fraud, and a daunting process. On June 31, 2021, in response to a petition on the struggles faced by migrant workers during the pandemic, the Supreme Court directed the central government to accelerate the process of building a database of unorganised workers. The government responded by launching the e-Shram portal – a...
More »Union health ministry’s survey puts question mark on death data -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Civil Registration System figures are closest to the truth and should be considered authentic, say officials The Union health ministry’s National Family Health Survey 2019-21 has suggested that India’s births-and-deaths recording system registered only 71 per cent of the country’s deaths over the preceding three years, significantly lower than the 99.9 per cent cited by the ministry for 2020. The gap between the two numbers and the exceedingly high proportion of...
More »Will implement CAA when Covid pandemic ends: Amit Shah in Bengal
-Hindustan Times Although the controversial law was passed in 2019, the rules on how it is to be implemented have not been framed yet, and the government has said this will happen once the pandemic ends. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be enforced as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic gets over, Union home minister Amit Shah said in West Bengal on Thursday, accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress in the state of...
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