India’s Unemployment Rate May Have Shot Up to 23% After COVID-19 Lockdown: CMIE
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India’s Unemployment Rate May Have Shot Up to 23% After COVID-19 Lockdown: CMIE

  Courtesy: The Wire Staff The national lockdown may have led to significant job losses across the country, with the overall unemployment rate hitting over 23% in the last week of March 2020, according to estimates put out by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). India currently does not have official high-frequency employment data….

Two Days Into Lockdown, Sitharaman Announces Rs 1.7 Lakh Crore Package to Help Poorest
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Two Days Into Lockdown, Sitharaman Announces Rs 1.7 Lakh Crore Package to Help Poorest

The Wire Staff, 26 March 2020 Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a much-awaited relief package for India’s poor and migrant workers, who have been hit hardest by the 21-day national lockdown that is aimed at tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The ‘Prime Minister Gareeb Kalyan’ scheme, worth Rs 1.7 lakh crore or slightly less…

Govt Spent Most ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ Funds on Advertisements

Govt Spent Most ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ Funds on Advertisements

Courtesy: The Wire Staff   The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) on Thursday admitted that a majority of funds allocated to the much-touted Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme was spent on advertisements instead of any concrete work. Ever since the scheme was launched in 2015, prime minister Narendra Modi has sought to…

Three Letters to Chief Ministers that Nehru Wrote 

Three Letters to Chief Ministers that Nehru Wrote 

Courtesy: The Wire Staff    Different prime ministers choose to communicate in different ways. If tweets, radio broadcasts and speeches at rallies are Narendra Modi’s preferred modes of communication, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, believed in letters—snail-mail, in today’s parlance. Soon after he assumed office in August 1947, Nehru began a tradition of writing…