-Livemint.com Political analysts feel there is a sense of dissatisfaction in Uttar Pradesh on demonetisation, though the political dominance of the BJP continues Baghpat, Shamli and Sardhana (Uttar Pradesh): Ved Pal, a 35-year-old farmer from the village of Bodda in Baghpat district, thinks demonetisation was the right thing to do even if its immediate aftermath was painful. “Any new work undertaken by any individual or government will always face problems; so demonetisation...
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Calcutta HC directs West Bengal govt to file report on action taken to combat dengue menace
-PTI Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court directed the West Bengal government on Friday to file an action taken report on the dengue menace that has affected a large number of people in the state. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya and Justice Arijit Banerjee directed the state government to submit the report by coming Friday when a set of PILs seeking steps to control the vector-borne disease and compensation...
More »Don't create panic on Aadhaar linking: SC to Banks, telcos -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court eased on Friday the pressure mounted by Banks and telecom companies on customers through frequent messages to link Aadhaar with Bank accounts and mobile phone numbers and ordered that they intimate people about the deadline for doing so. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said even judges are not spared from such messages, which the petitioners termed as part...
More »1,216.8 crore authentications: Govt swamps SC with UID data -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Bombarding the Supreme Court with statistics to convince it about ease of doing day-to-day activities with Aadhaar, the Centre said 118.64 crore Indians, which is 88% of the population, had obtained Aadhaar and they used it 1,216.8 crore times for authentication purposes. "As of today, the total number of Aadhaar-based authentication is 12,168,022,172. Therefore, the Indian population has used Aadhaar-based authentication over 1,216 crore times to...
More »India slips 21 places in gender gap ranking, Bangladesh ahead -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express While the top ranks continue to be held by the Nordic countries of Iceland, Norway and Finland, Bangladesh, at 47th position, holds the highest rank in South Asia. INDIA HAS been ranked a low 108 out of 144 countries on the gender equality scale, slipping from 87 last year, according to the Global Gender Gap Index (2017) released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday. While the top ranks...
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