-The Telegraph Three railway Employees are among those not traceable Guwahati: The death toll from Thursday’s landslide in Manipur’s Noney district has risen to 20 with the recovery of 12 more bodies. Around 43 people are still missing, 16 of them from Assam. Fifteen of the dead were Territorial Army personnel deployed for the security of railway staff and construction workers at the under-construction Tupul railway station yard, which was hit by the...
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‘Playing with the lives of HIV patients’: Drug shortages force many to change medication regime -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-Scroll.in Taking available medicines instead of what has been prescribed could lead to drug resistance and even death. Nongmeikapam Dusmanta, a retired government Employee from the water resources department in Manipur, has battled with HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, for over two decades. He has seen the evolution of India’s battle against AIDS – acquired immune deficiency syndrome, an HIV-led disease that severely damages the immune system – from a time when there...
More »NITI Aayog launches report on gig economy in India: Key takeaways -Haripriya Suresh
-MoneyControl.com The report looks at the present size of the sector, its job generation potential, and also offers recommendations for growth. India’s gig workforce, estimated to be at 77 lakh in 2020-21, is expected to go up to 2.35 crore by 2029-30, according to a NITI Aayog report. The report, titled 'India's Booming Gig and Platform Economy' looks at the present size of the sector, its job generation potential, and also offers...
More »Gig economy in India to employ 23.5 million by 2030, says NITI Aayog report -Isha Sahai Bhatnagar
-Hindustan Times Over 20% of the 7.7 million jobs in India’s gig economy are classified as high-skilled jobs and 31% as low-skilled jobs. The remaining 47% are classified as medium-skilled jobs India’s gig economy is estimated to employ 7.7 million people and is set to nearly triple to 23.5 million by 2029-30, a new report by the NITI Aayog said on Monday. The report, ‘India’s Booming Gig and Platform Economy’, is the first...
More »Agnipath: With 34 lakh military pensioners, pensions form >50% of defence budget -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Rebecca Rose Varghese and Jasmin Nihalani
-The Hindu More than half the defence budget is allocated for pensions every year while less than 5% is allocated for research and development One key reason for the Agnipath scheme, which aims to recruit defence personnel in short-term contracts, could be to reduce increasing pension payments in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. More than half the defence budget is allocated for pensions every year while less than 5% is allocated...
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