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11.03 cr toilets and 3.59 lakh solar pumps built in India: Centre
Opposition challenges data on SBM toilets and other election promises
MPs takes GoI to task on unemployment
After the failure to provide data for 2020, the Centre answered Lok Sabha questions with better figures on the state of jobs in India
MP: Scholar Shamsul Islam’s event cancelled on “gov’t orders”
Shocked by the sudden decision sprung upon organisers, Islam asks what justifies such a move against a research scholar by the state government
Pandits are being used by people, some of whom look down upon Kashmiris: Kashmiri IAS officer
Sudha Koul Kashmir’s first woman IAS officer talks of peace and why she does not agree with the divisive The Kashmir Files
Assam: Could exclusion from NRC could lead to cancellation of Aadhaar?
State government and AASU representatives agree that NRC and Aadhaar are separate, but it will be revoked for those who will be excluded from final NRC; the present NRC is not acceptable to them
MP: ATS arrests four Bangladeshis
Right-wing uses the news to further hate against Muslims
India ranks high in cumulative excess Covid-deaths: Lancet report
A global report looking at excess deaths during the pandemic period put India in a harsh light
Even in a BJP ‘wave’, UP voters blew out many flames of hate
Many hate mongers, Hindutva harliners, including those accused in Muzzafarnagar riots cases, tasted defeat on their home turfs
Who’s afraid of the exit polls, anyway?
The “predictions” on TV will not matter later this week, but they have sent pulses racing, and anxieties mount
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