-The Indian Express Marriage and employment are the major reasons for migration, Census data show. The bulk of the migration takes place within individual states. Census 2011 data on migration released last week show Maharashtra had more migrants from Madhya Pradesh than from Bihar, and Gujarat had almost double the number of migrants from Rajasthan than from Bihar. Data from Delhi show only 2,321 persons declared Bangladesh as their last place of...
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EC sets up teams to probe VVPAT mismatch in Lok Sabha election -Damini Nath
-The Hindu Of 1.25 crore votes counted, 51 did not match, says panel New Delhi: After reports of mismatches between the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips and the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) count in eight cases during the Lok Sabha election, the Election Commission has set up teams to probe seven of the cases. Of the 1.25 crore VVPAT slips counted, 51 or 0.0004% of the total saw a mismatch, according...
More »Congress takes down tweet on RTI Act after activist's jibe
-The Hindu Bhopal-based Ajay Dubey claims that the Act’s implementation is in shambles in pARTy-ruled Madhya Pradesh Bhopal: The Twitter handle of the Madhya Pradesh Congress on Wednesday took down a tweet against the amendment to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, minutes after an activist replied to it claiming that the Act’s implementation was in shambles in the State. Around 9 p.m., the handle tweeted that it didn’t accept the amendment to...
More »Thumbs up in Assam for new NRC deadline -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindu Re-verification would have caused a lot of misery, says AAMSU GUWAHATI: Various organisations in Assam welcomed the Supreme Court’s order extending the deadline for publishing the final NRC to August 31 and turning down the request of the Centre and Assam government to conduct 20% sample re-verification of listed names in the districts bordering Bangladesh and 10% in the other districts on Tuesday. In a joint statement, the Assam State Jamiat...
More »CAG demonstrates how govt relies on off-budget resources to fund deficit - Dinesh Narayanan
-The Economic Times India’s deficit numbers have come under lens as the govt is increasingly depending on off-budget borrowings. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said that the central government’s key deficit figures may be considerably higher than those stated in the union budget. In a presentation to the 15th Finance Commission (FFC) on July 8, three days after the July 5 budget, CAG has asked whether the extra-budgetary resources accounted for...
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