-The Hindu We need to rethink social safety nets in India’s growing economy so that they can also focus on the accidents of life rather than solely on the accidents of birth. Sometimes the grand narratives of the Left and the Right do not seem to have any relationship with the lived experiences of ordinary Indians. For the past two decades, the Left has tried to expand social welfare programmes for the...
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No rain mercy: Floods, lightning claim 74 lives
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The flood SITuation in Assam, where two more people were killed on Sunday, and Bihar remained grim, while the death toll in lightning strikes in Odisha in the last 24 hours climbed from 32 to 45, taking the overall number of casualties to 74. In Assam, 29 people have so far died as more than 16 lakh people remain affected in 21 districts. About 150 rural...
More »Flood SITuation in Bihar worsens, 2.6 million hit
-The Times of India PATNA: The flood SITuation in Bihar worsened on Sunday, with many rivers breaching their banks and affecting hundreds of thousands of people, officials said. More than 2.6 million people have been hit by the floods in the state including half a million who have been displaced across 12 districts, the officials said. Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav viSITed the flood affected Supaul district on Sunday and said:...
More »No rain mercy in eastern India, flood toll now 59
-The Times of India DELHI/ GUWAHATI/ BHOPAL: The flood SITuation aggravated in Assam, Meghalaya, Bihar and West Bengal on Saturday with the toll reaching 32 even as another 27 people died in lightning strikes in Odisha. Assam was the worst affected with 27 killed even as home minister Rajnath Singh made an aerial survey of the state's flood-hit districts. "Over 30 lakh people and 28 districts have been affected. The problem is...
More »30% ATMs of PSUs non-functional due to snags, no cash: RBI survey
-PTI New Delhi: An RBI survey has found that 30% ATMs of public sector banks and 10% belonging to private banks were non-functional due to technical snags and no cash, among other reasons. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, minister of state for finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar said RBI has informed that it recently conducted a “representative sample survey” of about 4,000 ATMs SITuated in metro, semi-urban, urban and rural...
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