Although social activists and concerned economists demanded at least Rs. 1 lakh crore to be earmarked in favour of the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the Finance Minister in her budget speech on 1st February allocated only Rs.61,500 crore to it for the...
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Low-lying agricultural areas of rural India witnessed most cases of deaths due to snakebite envenoming in the last 2 decades
Published on : Jul 18, 2020
Poisonous snakebites have killed more than a million Indians in the last two decades, finds a recently published article entitled Trends in snakebite mortality in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study. Published in the open access journal elifesciences.org, the research-based study has found that the country accounts for nearly half the total number of annual deaths in the world caused by snakebite envenoming. Who are the...
+ Read MoreLockdown further impoverishes those who were living on the edges of existence even during normal times, finds a new report
Published on : Jun 22, 2020
A recent survey that was conducted through telephonic interviews among 1,405 respondents across the states of Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan and Jharkhand reveals the precarious conditions of workers nearly 45 days after the announcement of COVID-19 lockdown. The report entitled Labouring...
+ Read MoreSWAN’s third report outlines the perpetual plight of migrants in terms of food shortage, income insecurity and travel difficulties during the lockdown
Published on : Jun 14, 2020
On June 5th this year, the Stranded Workers Action Network, comprising volunteers from various civil society groups, academics and students enrolled in university education, released its third report entitled ‘To Leave or Not to Leave? Lockdown, Migrant Workers, and Their Journeys Home’. Among other things,...
+ Read MoreLocust invasions in a number of Indian states have arisen out of climate change induced extreme rainfalls in desert areas
Published on : Jun 2, 2020
In the midst of COVID-19 lockdown, desert locust swarms have been seen in parts of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh in the second half of May 2020. The recent attacks by desert locust swarms have caused massive crop damage, depletion...
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A year on, Article 370 and Kashmir mythmaking -Happymon Jacob
-The Hindu The August 5 decision has led to a state wherein the very...
Published on : Aug 4, 2020
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Kashmir now hotspot of illegal riverbed mining -Athar Parvaiz
-TheThirdPole.net Going against its own orders, the government in the Indian Union Territory of...
Published on : Aug 3, 2020
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Tamil Nadu Rejects NEP's Three-Language Formula, to Continue Dual Language Policy
-PTI/ TheWire.in Chief minister E.K. Palaniswami described the three-language formula in the New Education...
Published on : Aug 3, 2020
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State Recovery Tracker: Rajasthan, Delhi led economic recovery in July -Tanay Sukumar and Surbhi Bhatia
-Livemint.com A few large state economies that may have seen off the worst of...
Published on : Aug 3, 2020
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PM-KISAN is not reaching all farmer households as intended -Bornali Bhandari, Santanu Pramanik and Sonalde Desai
-The Indian Express Given this uncertainty over the reach of PM-KISAN and its targeting,...
Published on : Aug 3, 2020
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Bank accounts opened under Jan Dhan Yojana crosses 40-crore mark
-PTI/ The Hindu As per the latest figure, there are 40.05 crore beneficiaries of...
Published on : Aug 3, 2020
