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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.
ASHA Workers on Covid-19 duty demand safety gear, healthcare, insurance and better wages
At present they are conducting door-to-door surveys, monitoring quarantines, recording health conditions, etc. without protective gear, unless they buy one on their own
Desire for scoring political brownie points greater than need to control Covid-19 in Delhi?
BJP and AAP busy claiming credit for sundry protocols and rollbacks even as national capital overtakes Mumbai as coronavirus capital of India
Covid-19: Allahabad HC asks police to spread awareness rather than arresting people
The court noted that the offence was of overcrowding and asked the police to reconsider the case
Covid-19 cases spike in Ahmedabad’s posh West Zone, residents cry foul
Residents of Sachin Tower in the West Zone have alleged that the government put them under micro-containment based on rumours spread on social media
Covid-19 ‘cure’: Patanjali only had licence to make ‘immune booster’, not ‘medicine’
Ramdev and Balkrishna now share ‘receipt of documents' as a validation of claims, even as controversy rages on
Free universal healthcare for all in India
“Swasthya seva hamara adhikar Ise degi hamari Sarkar”
Migrant Diaries: The story of Mohammed Jamaluddin
CJP Team -
“We took a bus, then rode in a truck, then walked, then boarded another truck, and were heckled by officials at each checkpost,” a mason recalls his hellish journey from Mumbai to Birbhum
Reports of glaring vacancies of ASHA workers in Covid-19 hotspots, no pay emerge
It has surfaced that many states do not provide safety equipment to ASHA workers and most haven’t received their pay for months during the crisis
Migrants are victims, not criminals: Guj HC
The court granted bail to 33 migrant workers hailing from Jharkhand and West Bengal
Stop advertising, publicising ‘Covid cure’ claims till examined: AYUSH Min to Patanjali
Ramdev's company had claimed they had come up with a cure for Covid-19
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