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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.
Does GoI have 80,000 crores to buy, distribute Covid-19 vaccine?
Serum Institute of India, CEO Adar Poonawalla has asked this, igniting a debate, but no one seems to know the govt’s plan of action
Covid-19: Bombay HC stands by Maha government’s refusal to reopen places of worship
Cites rise in coronavirus cases as a reason, adjourns PIL for two months
Malnutrition reduced in India: WCD Ministry
Union Minister Smriti Irani says that recent data shows malnutrition in India has reduced since the NFHS-4 report of 2015-16.
Pandemic dance video teaches how to engage with Covid-19
Vancouver-based Indo-Canadian poet has a remedy to survive the current crisis by remaining connected with nature.
MHA: Over 200 still detained under PSA in J&K
This ministry also said Covid measures were running smoothly with 2G internet in response to two questions asked in Lok Sabha
Tablighi Jamaat event caused coronavirus to spread to ‘many persons’: MHA
Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also told Rajya Sabha that Delhi Police arrested 233 TJ members, evacuated 2,361 people from its HQ
Strike three and counting! Centre says it no data on death of sanitation workers during Covid-19
The Centre seems to have given up on keeping records as yet again it says it has no data on the death of 'Safai Karmachari' or sanitary workers employed during the pandemic
Strike 2: Centre now says no data on Covid-19 deaths of medical staff!
Shortly after the Centre claimed no data on death of migrant workers, the Ministry of Health and Welfare now says that it maintained no data on the death of medical staff during the on-going pandemic.
Shrey Hospital Fire: Civil society demands CBI inquiry
Statement of solidarity with victims’ families seeks application of Sec 304 of CrPC
No data, so no compensation: Centre’s shocking revelation on migrant labourer deaths!
The Ministry of Labour and Employment declares it has no records, though plight of migrant labourers has been widely reported in the media and documented by organisations like CJP
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