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Day February 5, 2018

World’s biggest health scheme will come into operation after Modi is voted out

Union Budget 2018: Modicare May Only Take Off In FY20, Says Finance Secretary Adhia In his Union Budget Speech on Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley described it as the “world’s largest government funded health care programme”. In a few hours… Continue Reading →

India- Richest companies have the lowest tax liability #Achchedin

TINA EDWIN U T- They milk tax breaks in ways that smaller firms can’t, paying only 23.9% tax on average India’s most profitable companies paid 23.9 per cent tax on an average on their profits for financial year 2016-17, about 10.7 percentage… Continue Reading →

Racism is creeping back into mainstream science #StopEugenics

Angela Saini ‘Scientific’ eugenics is on the rise, and grabbing a foothold in respected journals. The claim that these theories are a credible part of a general discussion should worry us all In the fallout from Toby Young’s resignation from the Office… Continue Reading →

Don’t fall for online-only love. It’s not the giddy real thing

Daisy Buchanan A fifth of 11- to 16-year-olds would be happy to have a web-only relationship. But for adults, real life is where the magic starts How do we love now? With the help, and hindrance, of technology. In many… Continue Reading →

Gujarat bleeds biometrics, UIDAI says Aadhaar biometrics secure

By  Vidyut   Babubhai Boriwal (53) and Sampatlal Shah (61), owners of “Pandit Deendayal grahak bhandar” shops under Gujarat’s Annapurna Yojana PDS, were arrested by the Crime Branch in Surat. They were using an illegal software that accessed leaked biometric data… Continue Reading →

SC – Women born before 2005 too have right to ancestral assets #WomenRights

  Amit Anand Choudhary|  HIGHLIGHTS A SC bench said the amended Hindu Succession Act stipulated that a daughter would be a “coparcener” since birth, and have the same rights and liabilities as a son. A coparcener is the one who… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – First-person account of working with Bajrang Dal

Moyukh Chatterjee   The Ordinary Life of Hindu Supremacy The author presents a personal, first-person, account of his experience of working with Bajrang Dal in Ahmedabad. He attempts to throw light on the everyday lives of the Bajrang Dal boys,… Continue Reading →

India – Unique ID is not Unique, does not certify anything says UIDAI in a #RTI reply #WTFnews #AadhaarFail

By- Anupam Saraph   In yet another shocking admission the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) admitted, in response to a RTI query, that it does not certify the identity, address, date of birth, resident status or existence of any… Continue Reading →

India – Tribal development scheme reduced to tokenism

Ishan Kukreti   Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana was introduced in 2014 for the overall development of tribal communities  On December, 12, 2016, the Minister of Tribal Affairs, Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor told the Lok Sabha that Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana will only retain a… Continue Reading →

Why is India’s wealth inequality growing so rapidly?

by Prabhat Patnaik An Oxfam report released on the eve of the World Economic Forum at Davos underscores the dramatic increase in wealth inequality in India in recent years. In 2017 alone, the top 1 percent of the population owned 73 percent of the… Continue Reading →

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