-The Indian Express Sources said the agency had begun a massive data revamp exercise under former NCRB Director Ish Kumar. It was under him that the bureau revised the proforma under the category of murder and added new sub-heads of mob lynching and murder for religious reasons among others. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released its latest data on crime INCidents across the country on Monday, more than a year...
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A difficult time for the economy -Renu Kohli
-The Telegraph It must be ensured that growth does not slide down further Economic news has been INCreasingly dismal for some time. The decline in economic activities sINCe January-March 2018 accelerated this year, gathering pace in recent months and prompting concern it could turn into a recession. Some commentators argue the economy is in a recession; others disagree, saying growth is decelerating. SINCe recessions are defined as periods of negative real gross...
More »The state of social infrastructure in metros -Sriharsha Devulapalli, Vishnu Padmanabhan, Pooja Dantewadia and howindialives.com
-Livemint.com/ howindialives.com Residents in Hyderabad enjoy the best access to schools and public healthcare facilities among five of the country’s metros, suggests a Mint analysis Millions move to India’s metros in search of a better life, but which metro delivers this the best? Answering this is difficult, but one measure could be access to education and public healthcare. Access to schools and health facilities are the first steps to a prosperous life....
More »Will 1,646 fodder camps for 11 lakh cattle count in Maharashtra polls? -Harish Damodaran & Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Out of the 1,646 fodder camps, the maximum were opened in Beed (549, with 3.49 lakh animals), Ahmednagar (507 and 3.34 lakh), Solapur (248 and 1.75 lakh) and Osmanabad (92 and 0.85 lakh) districts. Pune/ Solapur: The southwest monsoon season is over, but Kakaso Gaikwad’s “chara chavani” (fodder camp) still has 540 animals. At its peak — from late-April till almost the end of September — there were...
More »The MGNREGA slowdown in India -Debmalya Nandy
-CounterCurrents.org Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) this year has almost come to a standstill. While the nation is debating the economic slowdown and falling demand in the rural areas , economists emphasizing that INCrease in the rural INCome and generating resources for the poor as a potential solution to the on going crisis, the so called world’s largest job scheme remains neglected by the Government of India. While focusing...
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