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When data is used as a weapon against reality: Deviations in the HCES & CES, claims of poverty line
This Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) is qualitatively different in methodology (including sampling) from the earlier Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) last conducted in 2011-12, and therefore the two are not comparable. So the claim that India’s poverty has declined to below 5% doesn’t hold water: Second, the NITI Aayog has made no effort to even determine an official poverty line, last defined in the Census 2001.
Ghulam Muhammad Jaula passes away
The UP farmer leader was a symbol of secularism in the agrarian community
NFIW remembers freedom fighter Sarla Sharma
The veteran workers leader struggled to empower many marginalised women workers in the capital city
Striving for peace in strife-torn Kashmir
Pandits in Anantnag, protesting the killing of Rahul Bhat, question whether this is the new Kashmir Modi is talking about
Protests continue over Kashmiri Pandit’s murder
Protests continued for the seventh day in Kashmir over the killing of PM Package employee Rahul Bhat
West Bengal: ED arrests six, including a Bangladeshi national, living illegally in India
Raids were against Bangladesh nationals for possessing fake Indian identity cards; the arrested Bangladeshi, is accused of defrauding banks of his own country too
Delhi: 27 killed in a fire in commercial building, owners arrested
Left groups accused the administration of neglecting industrial safety
EVMs for urban bodies, paper ballot for panchayat elections: MP Election Commission
Preparing for elections, Madhya Pradesh’s EC declares EVMs for cities and paper ballot for rural areas
Four buildings razed during SDMC demolition drive, MLA Amanatullah Khan arrested!
Residents and police sustain injuries; accuse each other of violence
Kashmiri Pandits stage protest in Valley, face tear gas, seek justice for Rahul Bhat
Bhat was killed by militants in the Valley, the third such attack this year; community says gov't indifferent to plight
Now, AJP pushes for ‘error-free’ NRC in Assam
Holds BJP-led government accountable for “corrected” NRC to weed out “infiltrators”
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