-The Hindu MPs raise questions on privacy, purpose and Srikrishna panel report The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill will throw open its doors for all stakeholders to express objections and point out loopholes in the proposed legislation, the panel decided at its first meeting held on Thursday. IT SECretary Anshu Prakash gave a presentation giving details of the bill. “Today was just a preliminary briefing, we didn’t go into the bill...
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BJP accounted for 75% of total income national parties received through electoral bonds in 2018-19, Cong SECond -Fazil Khan
-News18.com Electoral bonds were first notified in January 2018 by the then finance minister Arun Jaitley and its first tranche had gone for sale in March the same year. New Delhi: Of the six national parties that submitted details of their Income Tax Returns (ITR), three — Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, and All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) — have declared income/donations worth Rs 1,931 crore through electoral bonds during financial year...
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-World Meteorological Organisation The year 2019 was the SECond warmest year on record after 2016, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s consolidated analysis of leading international datasets. Average temperatures for the five-year (2015-2019) and ten-year (2010-2019) periods were the highest on record. Since the 1980s each decade has been warmer than the previous one. This trend is expected to continue because of record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Averaged across...
More »2019 SECond hottest year on record, UN confirms
-United Nations Last year was the SECond warmest year on record, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Wednesday “The average global temperature has risen by about 1.1°C since the pre-industrial era and ocean heat content is at a record level,” said WMO SECretary-General Petteri Taalas. “On the current path of carbon dioxide emissions, we are heading towards a temperature increase of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius by the end of...
More »Explained: A new controversy on India's fiscal deficit -Udit Misra
-The Indian Express In his blog, S C Garg, former Economic Affairs SECretary, has claimed that the actual fiscal deficit for the last financial year and the current one is more than a full percentage point higher than the official data. On the face of it, India’s fiscal deficit, which essentially maps how much money the Indian government has to borrow to make up the gap between its expenditure and its revenues,...
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