-Scroll.in RTI documents show that Niti Aayog largely worked with World Bank and top private healthcare industry. The Niti Aayog’s blueprint to increase the role of private hospitals in treating non-communicable diseases in urban India by handing district hospitals over to the private sector on 30-year leases was built largely on a template provided by the World Bank. The template was fine-tuned in close coordination with top private healthcare industry representatives. State...
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Journalists connect dots -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Hundreds of journalists, activists and Opposition leaders converged at the Press Club of India and other venues in Lutyens' Delhi to speak out against the fear that has set in after senior journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder. Journalists condemned the hate campaign by Twitter trolls followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called for introspection within news agencies on the role the media play as the fourth pillar of...
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-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetization on November 8, 2016, of his stated intentions for the move was to attack counterfeit notes. However, the RATe of seizures of fake currency notes across the country has remained the same, even after Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were declared illegal. The model state of GujaRAT had the most seizures of Rs 2,000 notes after demonetization, figures...
More »India has gone from British Raj to Billionaire Raj: Report
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Inequality in India may be at its highest level since 1922, when the country's income tax law was conceived, with 22% income accruing to the top 1% income earners, a new paper released by economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel showed. "The top 1% of earners captured less than 21% of total income in the late 1930s, before dropping to 6% in early 1980s and rising...
More »Centre keeping a tab on onion prices
-The Hindu Business Line Why is it up despite a bumper crop? New Delhi: The Centre on Monday said it is closely monitoring the price and availability of onions, as there is no reason for the price of the essential vegetable going up considering the bumper production this year. According to the third advance estimate of horticulture production, as much as 217.2 lakh tonnes of onion were produced in 2016-17, compared to the...
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