-PTI Muslims have the highest number of illiterates — nearly 43 percent of their population — while Jains have the highest number of literates among India’s religious communities with over 86 percent of them educated. According to the Census 2011 data, Jains have just 13.57 percent illiterates aged seven and above among all communities. The census has taken those between 0 and 6 years as illiterate. Muslims have the highest percentage of illiterates aged...
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Lounges turn wards as fever patients pour into Delhi hospitals -Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The dengue-chikungunya crisis is severely straining health services in the capital. Top public and private hospitals, flooded with patients, have turned waiting areas, patient lounges and non-emergency wards into fever wards. But the influx of patients is so high that not everyone is being admitted. As per municipal data, 487 dengue and 444 chikungunya cases have been recorded this year. However, major public and private hospitals...
More »Jains top in share of graduates -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India The Muslim community in India has the lowest share of graduates compared with other communities and just half the share of the nationwide average of under 6%. The Jains continue to be the most educationally advanced community with over a quarter of its members qualified as graduate or above. The share of technical diploma holders is the highest among Christians at 2.2%, again continuing a previous trend,...
More »Centre's action cools off dal prices -Dipak K Dash & Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Prices of all major pulses have crashed, and arhar, in particular, is now selling in the range of Rs 120 and Rs 136 a kg in the four metro cities. Arhar is retailing at Rs 102 per kg even in Patna from where Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had launched an attack on the Centre's failure to check prices with his slogan "Arhar Modi" just...
More »NCRB data: 25 per cent of children raped were targeted at work by their employers and co-workers -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express According to data compiled by NCRB for 2015, 8,800 cases of rape on children were registered across the country under the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). New Delhi: INDICATING the extent of exploitation involved in child labour, latest government statistics show that over 25 per cent of rapes on children last year were committed by their employers and co-workers. According to data compiled by the National...
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