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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.
Unnao: Teenaged Muslim vendor dies after police beating for violating Corona curfew
According to the Unnao police, two police constables have been suspended, charged with murder, a home guard, has been dismissed from service
A George Floyd moment in India, I can’t breathe: Delhi HC on oxygen shortage
The HC took notice of the fact that liquid medical oxygen was in short supply, resulting in people scrambling for oxygen cylinders and concentrators
Muslim Covid warriors save lives with oxygen ‘langars’, ambulance services
Many helping hands come together in Hyderabad with the mission to save lives and serve humanity
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K’taka HC seeks govt’s plan of procuring oxygen and vaccines
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Prisoners have right to access medical records under Article 21: Bom HC
The vacation bench was hearing a petition filed by Sudha Bharadwaj’s daughter for medical attention and interim bail
UP govt asks SEC to consider wider compensation for dependents of deceased polling officials
Claiming that SEC guidelines need revision in light of Covid-19, the UP government said it will ask more people to be included in the list of officials who died during election duty and are eligible for compensation.
Eminent environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna succumbs to Covid-19
He died at noon at Rishikesh’s AIIMS hospital where he was undergoing treatment
Scientist and activist Prof. Dinesh Mohan passes away
The 75-year-old dedicated life to both science and human rights
TN’s IVC facility is lying dormant, use it for Covid vaccine production: Experts to CM
Civic organisation People First gathered signatures of over 50 experts in Tamil Nadu to suggest the use of the IVC facility at Chengalpattu, lying dormant since 2017
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