-The Hindu As part of the FIRst phase of the operation, the department had sent online queries and investigated 17.92 lakh persons out of which 9.46 lakh persons have responded. New Delhi: As part of the second phase of the 'Operation Clean Money' (OCM) launched Friday to unearth black money, the Income Tax department will probe over 60,000 individuals including 1,300 high risk persons for alleged excessive cash sales post demonetisation on...
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-Economic and Political Weekly NFHS-4 data shows improvements in health status, yet serious concerns remain. Data on India’s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005–06, 1998–99 and 1992–93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic,...
More »Era of Nehruvian 5-year plan draws to a close -Mahendra Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The five-year plan, a relic of Nehru-era economic policy, will officially be buried as the Niti Aayog's governing council is likely to approve the government's new policy document: the three-year action plan (2017-2020). The government had announced that it would junk five-year plans from the current fiscal, after the 12th Plan ended on March 31, 2017, and replace it with three-year action plan and 15-year vision...
More »Are farmers collateral damage of modern economic growth? -Sanjiv Phansalkar
-VillageSquare.in People living in villages, who are migrating in large numbers to urban spaces in search of livelihoods, could be victims of our economic development or perhaps the dismal income growth of farm households is semi-deliberate to keep labor costs low Till about 1990 since Independence, our country followed what may be broadly termed an import-substitution strategy for economic growth. This meant high import duties and rigid non-tariff barriers on imports and...
More »Forces in AFSPA areas must get immunity, govt tells SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre made a forceful attempt on Wednesday for dilution of the Supreme Court's earlier judgment making registration of FIRs mandatory for encounter deaths during counter-insurgency operations by armed forces, even in disturbed areas under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). In an order on July 8, 2016, the SC had negated the protection against prosecution available to armed forces personnel under AFSPA. "If the...
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