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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.
How the Covid-19 pandemic was communalised: Report by Bebaak Collective
Covering seven Indian states, the report said that the pandemic’s communalisation shaped and impaired Muslims' access to livelihoods, space, education, healthcare and relief.
Communalisation of COVID-19: A Bebaak Collective report
Human rights defender Teesta Setalvad and feminist historian Uma Chakravarti applaud the initiative and discuss the rampant communalism observed during the coronavirus pandemic.
To be food secure, India must grow its own food grains: JNU professors
Professors Utsa and Prabhat Patnaik talk about the impact of India’s food security schemes and the insensitivity of the current government in passing the three farm laws.
Covid Vaccination: Are Indians being made guinea pigs?
Efficacy report pending, yet government greenlights use of indigenously developed Covaxin
Covid vaccination drive to kick off on January 16
Meanwhile, a tribal man has died after getting test dose, family alleges his consent was not taken, nor proof of vaccination given
Cases of H5N8 strain of Avian Flu reported from 8 states
Kerala worst affected, large flock of migratory birds dies in Himachal Pradesh
Covid vaccine trials in Bhopal without participants’ informed consent?
Some trial participants were gas tragedy survivors, activist alleges medical malpractice
Shrey Hospital Fire: Guj HC bats for greater accountability
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Gujarat HC takes suo motu cognisance of mid-day meal survey
The High Court has issued notices to the principal secretary of education department and the commissioner of mid-day meal scheme
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