-Scroll.in Majority of the persons, who left India, became citizens of the United States. The Union Home Ministry on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that 1,63,370 persons gave up their Indian citizenship in 2021. The figure is higher as compared to 2020 when 85,256 persons had renounced their Indian citizenship, according to the ministry’s data. In 2019, the figure stood at 1,44,017. The data was provided by Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand...
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Cost of living crisis hits poorest the hardest, warns UNCTAD
-UN News Billions of people are facing the greatest cost of living crisis in a generation due to rising food and energy prices amid rapid inflation and increasing debt, leaving the most vulnerable consumers in a dire situation, said the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD on Tuesday. UNCTAD’s analysis shows that a 10 per cent increase in food prices will trigger a five per cent decrease in the incomes of the...
More »Privacy, consent, data — what Delhi govt ignores when giving parents live classroom footage -Trishee Goyal
-ThePrint.in Arvind Kejriwal's Delhi govt needs to conduct a privacy assessment and find out what value does live streaming of classrooms add to children’s security. The Delhi government’s decision to give parents access to live video footage of classrooms is worrisome. Although use of CCTV and biometric based technologies is increasing across schools in various States, the decision to livestream classroom proceedings takes the use of these technologies a step further. In...
More »In a free fall
-The Telegraph Unlike 2013, the pressure on the rupee will endure This month, the rupee’s weakening trend has occupied our attention. Media reports have relentlessly focused on its fall to a ‘lifetime-low’ on a daily frequency. The authorities, on their part, have centred on measures to ease the mounting pressures up on the currency. Memory of the 2013‘taper tantrum’ is fresh in minds and has spurred a series of actions to prevent...
More »DTE Explains: The science of cloudbursts -Preetha Banerjee
-Down to Earth Telangana Chief Minister said cloudbursts may be a 'foreign conspiracy' during his visit to flood-hid Bhadrachalam India, especially its Himalayan States Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, are devastated by cloudbursts several times moslty during the monsoon season. Flash floods caused by a cloudburst in Uttarakhand in 2013, killing thousands of people, is one of the worst natural disasters the country recorded since the 2004 tsunami. Climate change has been making these...
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