-The Telegraph Study records targeting of minorities during pandemic, including use of social media handles like ‘#CoronaJihad’ New Delhi: The Washington-based think tank Pew Research Centre has come out with a study that puts India at the top of its index of social hostilities involving religion in 2020 in the context of the impact of Covid restrictions. The study has recorded the targeting of minorities in India during the pandemic, including the use...
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Number Theory: The state of the Indian economy in four charts -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times What do the latest numbers, analyst forecasts, and high-frequency data tell us about the state of Indian economy? The National Statistical Office (NSO) released GDP numbers for the quarter ending September 2022 on November 30. GDP growth for the second quarter is 6.3%, which is exactly what the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI projected in its September resolution. What do the latest numbers, analyst forecasts, and high-frequency data...
More »Explained: Why India’s economic growth slowed in the July-September quarter -Nachiket Deuskar
-Scroll.in The fading away of the base effect and a contraction in the manufacturing sector led to the falling numbers. India’s gross domestic product grew by 6.3% in the July-September quarter of financial year 2022-’23, the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said on Wednesday. This was a sharp decrease from the 13.5% growth in the previous April-June quarter. In the corresponding July-September quarter of financial year 2021-’22, the growth rate was...
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Like the fight against poverty and hunger, the progress made by mankind against tuberculosis (TB) in the years up to 2019 has either slowed, stalled, or reversed, and global TB targets are off track due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, although the reported number of people newly diagnosed with TB decreased from 7.1 million to 5.8 million between 2019 and 2020, the number went up to 6.4 million in 2021....
More »As COVID-19 Dips, Tuberculosis is the Most Lethal Infectious Disease Again -Mohd. Imran Khan
-Newsclick.in As per recent estimates, TB is killing approximately three times as many people as COVID-19 every day. Patna: Tuberculosis is one of the most lethal infectious diseases on the rise after the fears and deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic have come down. As per the latest report by TB Alliance, a not-for-profit organisation, HIV/AIDS is back in second place, and TB is in first place. “A few years back, tuberculosis overtook...
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