-PTI/ The Hindu Delhi reported one of the longest cold spells this January At least 106 people, mostly homeless persons, have died in Delhi this month due to cold conditions, non-government organisation Centre for Holistic Development (CHD) has claimed and written to ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal requesting him to make proper arrangements for such people during Winters. While officials from the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) denied that deaths have occurred due to...
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In Bastar, a fear that school shutdowns help Maoist recruitment -Ritesh Mishra
-Hindustan Times In the last of its five part series on the pandemic, school shutdowns and its effects on India’s children, HT travelled to Bastar to find that not only could this mean the usual learning loss, or problems with the lack of connectivity, but a deeper, more worrying malaise. Bijapur: There is a main road that runs close by, but the government school in Bhairamgarh is hidden from view. The campus...
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-The Telegraph West Bengal government shut down schools and colleges again from January 3 Vaccination for students aged 15 to 18 has begun School students in West Bengal who returned to the campus after a 20-month break in November are back behind the screen amid a surge in COVID cases across the country. Achal Sarkar, a student of Class XI at St. Xavier’s Institution, Panihati, had been looking forward to school reopening after the...
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-TheWire.in A PIL seeking social security benefits for gig workers and platform workers brings to the front a storm of issues that have festered over the last few years. There is a storm of discontent brewing within India’s app-based worker community, which the Union government has been sidelining for far too long much to the dismay of the over 15 million gig workers in India. While the government persists with an apathetic attitude...
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-PTI/ Business Standard Assam has recorded a decline in its growth rate while its fiscal deficit, outstanding debt and public debt have increased significantly at the end of 2019-20, a CAG report said Guwahati: Assam has recorded a decline in its growth rate while its fiscal deficit, outstanding debt and public debt have increased significantly at the end of 2019-20, a Comptroller and Auditor (CAG) report on state finance for the period...
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