Use of electoral bonds for Delhi polls worries activists -Damini Nath

-The Hindu Rue the use of unaccounted money in next month’s Assembly elections New Delhi: Activists working for electoral reforms…

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Health activists in Karnataka oppose NITI Aayog proposal on district hospitals -Afshan Yasmeen

-The Hindu Bengaluru: The NITI Aayog proposal to hand over district hospitals with 750 beds to private medical colleges, citing…

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Why food inflation may turn sticky -Sayantan Bera

-Livemint.com * Despite the slowdown in rural demand, the spike in food prices is not showing any signs of cooling.…

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63 Indian billionaires wealth higher than the Union Budget for 2018-19: Oxfam

-PTI * Oxfam said the combined total wealth of 63 Indian billionaires is higher than the total Union Budget of…

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Cops as private armies of politicians? Worth surveying citizen's trust in police -Vipul Mudgal

-Outlook.com The obligation of the police is not only to control crime and maintain peace but to do in an…

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December 2019 in northwest India coldest since 1971: IMD -Jayashree Nandi

-Hindustan Times One of them was its large area of impact. The maximum temperature in December was 17.5 degree C…

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Link sanitation, solid waste to agriculture, Niti Aayog advises states -Shagun Kapil

-Down to Earth Govt policy think tank asks chief secretaries to extract nutrients from human excreta and use them in…

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Who are the Bru refugees? -Shaswati Das

-Livemint.com * The agreement, allowing 30,000 Bru tribals to permanently settle in Tripura, took 20 years and nine attempts in…

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Delhi Police chief gets powers to detain under NSA, cops say it's nothing new -Ananya Bhardwaj and Debayan Roy

-ThePrint.in Under NSA, a person need not be informed of charges for 10 days, can be detained without charge for…

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The puzzle of inflation going up despite low demand in India -Himanshu

-Livemint.com The government’s inordinately large food stockpiles have resulted in an artificial market scarcity On 7 January, the ministry of…

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Is the Indian economy staring at stagflation? -Prashanth Perumal J

-The Hindu Why is the scenario of rising prices and falling growth a cause for worry? Can the government or…

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Women protesters are taking to the streets en masse to fight the CAA and police brutality -Anuradha Raman

-The Hindu They are homemakers and grandmothers, doctors and lawyers, students and teachers. They are all women and they have…

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More unemployed and self-employed people committed suicide than farmers in 2018, show NCRB data

-PTI Students and un-employed victims accounted for 7.6% (10,159) and 9.6% (12,936) of total suicides respectively. At least 35 unemployed…

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Infant deaths: A bleak winter for Kota's children -Mohammed Iqbal

-The Hindu While the children’s families blame the staff of Kota’s J.K. Lon Hospital for negligence, studies show that the…

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Govt has money for statues, not public health: Bombay HC on aid to Wadia Maternity Hospital

-PTI A division bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari and RI Chagla was hearing a public interest litigation seeking release of…

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