-NDTV.com Altogether electoral bonds worth ₹ 3,355 crore were sold in 2019-20, of which the BJP income was ₹ 2,555 crore. New Delhi: The BJP has gathered a whopping 76 per cent of the electoral bonds sold in the financial year 2019-20, shows data accessed by NDTV from the Election Commission. Altogether electoral bonds worth ₹ 3,355 crore were sold in 2019-20, of which the BJP income was ₹ 2,555 crore. This...
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Food delivery workers tell their story on Twitter, say it's a losing game
-TheNewsMinute.com The delivery executives behind the anonymous Twitter handle tell TNM that they deliver more food, travel more but earn less than ever before. Throughout the pandemic, even as Restaurants were shuttered to diners and grocery stores closed early, food delivery executives have remained a constant, traversing cities at all hours of the day to bring meals to your doorstep. Yet, during this time, many of these executives have stood in protest...
More »Inadequate Relief Measures Anger Flood Affected People of Bengal -Sandip Chakraborty
-Newsclick.in The lack of proper relief measures has caused the locals in the worst-hit regions to protest against the local TMC leaders and administration. Kolkata: Inadequacy of relief measures are plaguing four flood affected districts of West Bengal—Howrah, Hooghly, West Medinipur, and Burdwan—as Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) continues to release water following heavy rainfall in the catchment areas. There are protests breaking out in areas under affected and leaders of the ruling...
More »Most households in rural Bihar faced livelihood crisis during the first wave of COVID-19, reveals a recent study
The pandemic's first wave had a devastating impact on the livelihoods of rural workers in Bihar (including the self-employed) last year, according to a survey based research, jointly done by economists from Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability at Monash University, Australia and the New Delhi-based Institute for Human Development. A recent press note issued by the authors of the study shows that almost 94.4 percent of the households participating...
More »30 Years of Economic Reforms – A Saga of Growing Inequalities -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The votaries of economic reforms miss the point that while it may have increased GDP growth rate, it has worsened the conditions of the working people. It is 30 years since India adopted neoliberal policies in 1991, though some would date their introduction even earlier to 1985. Newspapers are full of assessments of the impact of these policies on the economy, and liberalisers from Manmohan Singh downward, have suddenly become visible,...
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