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A report prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University has highlighted how employment and income had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels even in late 2020 and the latest surge in cases would only add to the devastation and distress.
The suggestions from the GoM report hint at increased surveillance and targeting of writers and journalists who depart from the government’s narrative, the editors’ body said.
The V Dem Institute’s report notes that much of the decline in democratic freedoms occurred after the BJP and Narendra Modi’s victory in 2014.
A year has passed since the Delhi riots, but victims still long for justice, as the state continues to launch a vilification campaign against activists.
The entire project has been marked by opacity and lack of public consultation, say activists.
In both India and China, income inequality substantially grew after the economic liberalisation of the 1980s. However, while China’s inequality levels stabilised in 2019, India’s inequality levels continued to rise.
India has ranked 94 among 107 nations in the Global Hunger Index 2020 and is in the ‘serious’ hunger category.
On the occasion of Narendra Modi’s 70th birthday, Twitter users took upon themselves to remind the prime minister of the growing joblessness and acute economic crisis that the country is facing.
Ilina, who lived a life of deep commitment to ideals of justice and equality (including gender justice and equality) and many-sided achievements, passed away on August 9.
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