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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.

28 migrant labourers injured in separate road incidents in Lucknow

The accidents took place in Kannauj and Kanpur as buses carrying them turned turtle after hitting road dividers

Migrant Diaries: The story of Munna Sheikh

“It took us over 62 hours of a hellish train ride to reach home. I hope the Bihar government gives us money,” says a labourer wondering how else would his family survive

Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation falls to 3.21 percent during lockdown month of May

However, prices of potatoes, pulses and onions grew during this time

28 die of Covid-19 in one day in Gujarat, death toll crosses 1,500

The state’s healthcare crisis exacerbates as confirmed cases cross 23,000

Dear Prime Minister: 8 Lockdown letters from Sonia Gandhi that await the PM’s reply

The Covid-19 pandemic rages on in India despite the...

Plea in SC demanding transfer of funds from PM CARES to NDRF

The plea relies completely upon the Disaster Management Act, since the same has been invoked for dealing with the epidemic

No plans for another lockdown: Delhi CM

Home Minister Amit Shah chairs key meetings, reviews Covid-19 situation in National Capital

Surat ban beaten by locals, forcibly evicted from rented home on suspicion of Covid-19

Sanjay Sharma had lost his job at a catering firm in Surat and moved in with his friends as he couldn’t afford to pay rent at his prior residence

The Doctor is not needed. Please be seated

​​​​​​​The political, economic, social decisions taken during the pandemic have also exposed other chronic illnesses – those of monumental inequity and inequality, those of crumbling human rights in the face of brutal oppression, those of apathy and arrogance, those of utter humiliation and helplessness! Should we wait for another pandemic to be competent Social and Political Doctors?

Shortages of doctors, blood as healthcare crisis grows in Gujarat

With nurses protesting and fatality rate going up, Covid's grip tightens around the state

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