It is hard for the media to ignore the findings of global Human Development Report (HDR) whenever a newer and updated version is released. Every time when the HDR is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), media persons and commentators tend to compare the performance of their respective countries with that of performance in previous years as also with respect to the relative performance of other nations. One of...
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RTI Reveals 122 Deaths by Suicide in WB District; NCRB Report, State Govt Had 'Zero'
-TheWire.in 'The Hindu' has reported on RTI replies revealing a high figure of deaths by suicide among farmers and farm labourers in Paschim Medinipur district. This is contrary to claims by the state government and the most recent NCRB report. New Delhi: A Right to Information response has revealed that a district in West Bengal saw 122 deaths by suicide among farmers and those associated with agricultural work, The Hindu has reported....
More »Over 25 Deaths Reported in Four States During Ganesh Idol Immersions
-TheWire.in/ With PTI inputs Nineteen deaths were reported in separate incidents in Maharashtra, three in UP, six in Haryana and one in Hyderabad during Ganesh idol immersions on Friday. New Delhi: More than 25 people, including children, have died during the immersion of Ganesh idols in four states of the country on Friday, September 9. The ten-day Ganesh festival, which had started on August 31, ended on Friday. Maharashtra At least 19 persons died, 14...
More »Foeticide: More ‘Missing’ Girls Among Hindus Than Muslims in Last Two Decades, Official Data Shows -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in Researchers have used government data to find that nine million girls went ‘missing’ in 20 years in India. New Delhi: Hindus have the highest number of missing girls attributable to female foeticide in India, a new research report prepared by the Pew Research Centre has revealed. The researchers got their data from the last three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), including the fifth and latest one (2019-2020). The NFHS...
More »With the NEP's Focus on 'Autonomy', Are We Ushering in a Spirit of Academic Capitalism? -Pramod K Nayar
-TheWire.in Commentators see the National Education Policy 2020's emphasis on choice, modularity and autonomy as disquieting because they see it as pushing the education system into a neoliberal governance mode. In a perspicacious commentary on the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP), social scientist Satish Deshpande noted that multiple exit options “will certainly help in renaming drop-outs as certificate or diploma-holders. But they cannot ensure that these credentials will bring significant benefits for...
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