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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.

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MP High Court bats for prisoners’ right to health, calls for setting up PHCs in prisons

The court has sought a report from the state government in this regard and aims to follow up on how absence of basic medical care in prisons affects human rights of prisoners

Student leaders demand reopening of colleges, deem online education inadequate

Student representatives from JNU, JMI, AMU come together on the call of the SIO to discuss the urgent need to reopen campuses

Families of deceased UP teachers still waiting for ex-gratia payment

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Varavara Rao seeks extension of medical bail

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Dengue spreads in UP: Lucknow medical team arrives in Firozabad

Sources say the arrival of medical reinforcement from Lucknow provides an ample labour force to deal with the growing cases

Maharashtra: Is setting up medical institutes under public-private partnership a good route?

The government has decided to set up new medical colleges, super-speciality hospitals across the state on a public-private partnership basis

Gujarat: Harvard-UCB study reports 16,000 excess deaths during Covid pandemic!

Researchers say that official methods of recording mortality like death certificates cannot work as efficient indicators, due to a improper record keeping and a weak healthcare system

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