-Hindustan Times 2021 was supposed to be the year of the decadal census in India. This exercise has not been delayed even once until 2011 since 1881, when India conducted its first full census. Every day, the data and political economy team of the Hindustan Times brings you stories we call Number Theory. They are based on databases from India and sometimes even abroad. We will continue to do this in the...
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EWS: Govt panel favours retaining Rs 8 lakh income cut -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph 'Retain the norm that excludes families owning five acres or more of agriculture land' A panel appointed by the central government to review the income cut-off for the Economically Weaker Sections quota after the Supreme Court questioned the existing figure favours retaining it at Rs 8 lakh, sources have said. The three-member committee’s report has been submitted to the apex court, with its contents yet to be made public. The sources...
More »Omicron In India Could Require 60,000 People Hospitalised Per Day
-NDTV.com COVID-19: While the official number of Omicron cases in India is estimated to be nearly 1, 500, in reality, it could be more than 10 times that - as high as 18,000 - with the number shooting up every day New Delhi: India is going through an Omicron wave - one we don't seem to be acknowledging. While official figures suggest that Omicron cases are less than 2 per cent of...
More »Portal puts Muslim women on auction -Anita Joshua
-The Telegraph 'Bulli bai' is taken down after the victims and several Opposition politicians launch a protest A portal called “bulli bai” sought to put vocal Muslim women on auction on New Year's Day by using their social media profiles, less than six months after a similar effort had been made via the app “Sulli Deals”. “Bulli bai” was taken down after the victims and several Opposition politicians spoke out against it. Late on...
More »For Minister's Son, 5,000-Page Chargesheet Holds Damning Evidence -Alok Pandey
-NDTV.com Lakhimpur-Kheri Case: Thousands of pages of the chargesheet were brought to the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Lakhimpur town in a big trunk secured by two locks earlier this morning by the police Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police's special investigation team probing the Lakhimpur Kheri incident where four farmers and a journalist were murdered during an anti-farm law protest last October has submitted a 5,000-page chargesheet to a local...
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