-The Hindu They were on an upward trajectory between January and February 2020 In 2020, there were 18.05 TB notifications, which was a fall of 24% from 2019 due to the disruptions caused by the pandemic, according to the India TB report released by the Health Ministry on Wednesday. The report said between January and February 2020, the notifications were on an upward trajectory, with 6% more cases reported in the same period...
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Dismantling the labyrinth: What I learnt about power and privilege when I quit Ashoka in 2016 -Rajendran Narayanan
-Scroll.in To truly create sanctuaries of learning and questioning, the right to be heard impartially must be universal. Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s resignation from Ashoka University has been met with widespread condemnation from various academics. Rightly so. He is one of the foremost scholars and an articulate commentator on the Indian Constitution and politics. His resignation triggered the resignation of the renowned economist, Arvind Subramanain, who was India’s Chief Economic Advisor between 2014...
More »Nuns’ detention in Uttar Pradesh fans Kerala poll furore -Ramesh Babu
-Hindustan Times The nuns’ congregation belongs to Syro-Malabar Church which is based in Kerala. Thiruvananthapuram: The brief detention of a group of nuns by Government Railway Police (GRP) following complaints of alleged forced conversion by Bajrang Dal activists in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district has generated a political firestorm in Kerala ahead of the crucial assembly elections next month. The nuns’ congregation belongs to Syro-Malabar Church which is based in Kerala. While the Kerala Catholic...
More »Over 42,000 posts reserved for SC, ST & OBC vacant in union ministries, govt tells Lok Sabha -Sravasti Dasgupta
-ThePrint.in Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh says there were 78,923 vacant posts under reserved categories on 1 January 2020, and 42,066 of them remain unfilled. New Delhi: Over 42,000 posts reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Castes (OBC) are vacant in various central government ministries, the Narendra Modi government has revealed. In a written reply presented before Lok Sabha, Minister of State (MoS) in...
More »India’s true self-reliant entrepreneurs -Maitreesh Ghatak and Mukulika Banerjee
-Hindustan Times The lockdown showed how migrant workers, let down by the State, community and market, are the nation’s most valuable resource Atmanirbharata is India’s new economic policy. Nirbharata means reliance, and atma means the self. The Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, announced by Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, following the lockdown announced on March 24, 2020, calls for India’s economic mission to be based on self-reliance. Recently, the PM extolled the virtues of...
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