-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 27 January, 2020 As the Indian economy continues to languish, the government ignores the advice given by several noted economists, including that of the most recent Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee, to improve the functioning of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The economy is facing blow after blow. India has the highest rates of unemployment in the past 45 years and food inflation...
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On Assam Accord Cut-Off Date For Citizenship, Himanta Biswa Sarma's Spin -Ratnadip Choudhury
-NDTV The cut-off year, he said, was 1966 and by implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act, the BJP government is not 'violating' the Assam Accord but addressing its "unresolved issues". Guwahati: Assam minister and the BJP's key strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma weighed in on the debate over the citizenship law in the state, contending that 1971 was never the cut-off year for granting citizenship under the Assam accord - a key claim...
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-NDTV Lately, the January releases from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) about the advanced estimates of national income have a touch of seasonal chill. The estimate of the real GDP growth rate for 2019-20 has touched 5%, falling from 6.8% in 2018-19, continuing a downward slide that started in 2016-17. This is the lowest growth rate since 2008-09, which was the year of the global financial crisis. Indeed, in the entire...
More »Over 600 infants died in Rajasthan, Gujarat hospitals last month: 10 points -Harsha Kumari Singh/ Jimmy Jacob
-NDTV The BJP, which initially targeted the Congress over the infant deaths in Rajasthan, was faced with a similar situation in Gujarat. Jaipur: Over 600 babies died at six major hospitals across Rajasthan and Gujarat in December last year, agencies reported amid outrage over the alleged lack of life-saving equipment in government medical institutions. The first reports of the kind emerged from the JK Lon Hospital in Rajasthan's Kota, where 100...
More »Hours after swearing in, Hemant Soren's first Jharkhand cabinet decision
-NDTV/ IANS It was the tribals in Khunti -- a district practically in the backyard of state capital Ranchi -- who started using ''pathalgadi'' as a form of protest against the centre Ranchi: Mere hours after being sworn-in, Chief Minister Hemant Soren's Jharkhand government announced its first cabinet decision late Sunday evening - to drop all cases against tribals in connection with the Pathalgadi movement of 2017. In a tweet posted...
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