-The Indian Express Temporary denial of food rations is one thing, cancellation of ration cards is far more serious. How many cards have been cancelled for lack of Aadhaar linkage? No one really knows. The Covid crisis has enhanced the dependence of poor people on social security schemes such as the public distribution system (PDS). Many of them, unfortunately, continue to have difficulties in accessing these schemes due to Aadhaar-related problems. Startling findings...
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Will You Ask Patients To Wait For Oxygen, Court Slams Centre -Arvind Gunasekar
-NDTV.com As the Delhi government said it had logged a record 32,000 cases in a single day yesterday, the High Court also raised questions on the Centre's distribution policy on oxygen and vaccines. New Delhi: Taking up allegations of oxygen shortage and discrimination in resources leaving Delhi hamstrung in its Covid fight, the High Court said today if medicines were not being sent to places that really needed them, "blood is on...
More »World Press Freedom index: India retains 142 of 180 spot in, remains “one of the world’s most dangerous countries” for journalists -Krishn Kaushik
-The Indian Express For India, the latest report has blamed an environment of intimidation created by BJP supporters for any critical journalist, who, the report said, is marked as “anti-state” or “anti-national”. While India has not slipped further on the World Press Freedom Index 2021 published by the international journalism not-for profit body, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), however, it continues to be counted among the countries classified “bad” for journalism and is...
More »India on the brink of unprecedented unemployment crisis: CMIE report -Gyan Pathak
-TheLeaflet.in Analysing a recent report on unemployment in India by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, GYAN PATHAK warns about the looming unprecedented unemployment crisis. —– THE real extent of the economic damage from last year is now in the open. The biggest loss of employment in 2020-21 was suffered by salaried employees as opposed to the popular belief that they were the safest in terms of security of employment and earning during...
More »India exported nearly 9300 metric tonnes of oxygen in FY21 as pandemic rolled on -Subhayan Chakraborty
-MoneyControl.com Official figures show that in just the first three quarters of 2020-21, 9294 MT of oxygen was exported from the country, more than double the 4502 MT exports in the previous year. The vast majority of Oxygen headed to neighboring nation Bangladesh. While the supply of medical Oxygen runs low across the country and it gears up to import medical Oxygen, official data shows that nearly 9,294 metric tonnes (MT) of...
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