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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.
Trolls hound UP village leader stuck in Ukraine for asking GoI for help
Vaishali Yadav, was elected Gram Pradhan last year, and is an MBBS student in Ivano Frankivsk National Medical University
West Bengal: Anis Khan solidarity protests lead to police-student conflict
With this, Bengal is the fifth state to report student-police violence in the last two months
New Delhi: Why was there a flash strike at the Central Secretariat?
Over 1,000 staff of Central Secretariat Service gathered outside to protest delay in promotions
UP: Anganwadi workers demand payment for election duties
Three phases of the UP Assembly Elections have concluded, yet Anganwadi workers on polling duty say they are yet to receive payment for their services
The Communalisation Project: The Tamil Nadu story
Communalisation of a place is done with only one intention - to polarise people and to grab power through the democratic process of elections
People’s Commission demands a pause on LIC IPO
Civil society group demands a slow-down in the IPO process until the regulatory oversight authority is adequately strengthened
Facebook’s plans to curb online hate during Indian elections: Too little too late?
Parent company Meta announces a slew of measures including activating its Election Operations Centre
Rona Wilson’s devices hacked by two groups of hackers employed by same entity: Sentinel Labs
California-based cybersecurity firm’s report says two separate groups were employed by same entity with “interests aligned with the Indian State”
NIA arrests suspected Ansar operative for ‘planning UP blasts’
Police claim that the accused, Tawheed Ahmed Shah, is connected to Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind
Badshah Khan an icon of inter-faith harmony: February 6
Complimentary to Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Badshah Khan also played a crucial role in the sub-continent’s movement for sovereignty over the British and commitment to inter-faith Harmony
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