-Hindustan Times Bhopal: At least 10 people linked to the PEB scam in Madhya Pradesh were killed in road Accidents and four more committed suicide, statistics by a court-monitored investigation show, raising suspicions of an attempt to silence key players in a massive corruption scandal dogging the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government. The death of two more people at the weekend took the official body count of people linked to the scandal to...

-The Times of India MUMBAI: The gender gap in the world of tipplers is fast shrinking. Recent studies show that more female students than males in Spain are likely to binge-drink, and the percentage of women arrested for drunk driving increased by 30% within a decade in the US. In India, in the absence of any study or statistics, Accidents like the one caused by Chembur corporate lawyer Janhvi Gadkar prove that...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: A clutch of Indian public and private sector companies yesterday set up a nuclear insurance pool of Rs 1,500 crore needed for any compensation payments in the event of a nuclear Accident, senior atomic energy officials said today. The nuclear insurance pool, with a contribution from a UK-based nuclear insurer, is expected to address concerns among international and domestic suppliers that India's civil nuclear liability law gives nuclear...

-The Hindu Death rate in India for working men is far higher The international media has been awash with reports of hundreds of workers, most of them from Nepal, Bangladesh and India, dying during the construction of stadiums and other facilities for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. However a look at migration data suggests that the number of deaths does not necessarily suggest the kind of crisis that is being described. Since Qatar won...

-The Hindu The Modi government is determined to dismantle the two-pronged welfare paradigm. It is now an established fact that one area where the Narendra Modi administration has acted with a sense of purpose, urgency and resolve is in slashing social expenditure. Be it education, health, agriculture, livelihood security, food security, panchayati raj institutions, drinking water or the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes sub-plan, central government funds earmarked for social protection have been cut. The...