March 18, 2024

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Is speaking favourably about Pakistan a criminal offence in India?

Four men arrested in Karnataka last week for allegedly shouting “Pakistan zindabad”, long live Pakistan, were the latest in a rapidly lengthening list of persons prosecuted across the country in the last few years for allegedly chanting pro-Pakistan slogans.

However, on March 7, the Supreme Court, in a judgment, outlined that extending good wishes to Pakistan, or to any other country, for that matter, is not a criminal offence.

The court stated in the judgment in no uncertain terms that the country’s police machinery is disregarding the fundamental right of citizens to freedom of speech.

Scroll explains what the judgment said and why there is no legal basis for criminalising pro-Pakistan statements.

Supreme Court judgment

The Supreme Court’s judgment, delivered by a two-judge bench comprising Justices AS Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, stems from a first information report filed in 2022 by the Maharashtra police against Javed Ahmad Hajam, a Kashmiri professor who was at that time teaching at the Sanjay Ghodawat College in Kolhapur.

He had been booked under Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code that prohibits acts that promote disharmony or enmity between different groups based on religion, race, language, caste or community. In other words, it makes it illegal to engage in activities, make statements or…

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Good evening, friends. I must begin by thanking the committee of the Dr Aroon Tikekar Centre for Advanced Studies at the Asiatic Society of Mumbai for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at this evening’s event. Dr Tikekar was a friend from my Times of India days. He would come up to my cabin once in a while to have a chat, often an angry one. His sudden and unexpected death ended an association that had lasted some 20 years, in the course of which, as editor of Loksatta, Dr Tikekar had persuaded me to write two fortnightly columns for the paper, the first one on culture and the second on good manners.

Turning to the topic of my speech today, I must confess I was at a loss to know how to make it relevant to this year’s research projects, one of which is on Marathi literature and the other on Marathi theatre. Four memories came to my aid in quick succession to give me the title and substance of my talk. Memory number one was a visitor from Chennai, staying with friends in Walkeshwar, assuming that my mother tongue was Gujarati. He seemed surprised to hear it wasn’t. “But isn’t that the…

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Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has released the interview call letters for the post of Assistant Prosecution Officer. Eligible candidates will be able to download their call letters from the official website bpsc.bih.nic.in.

The interview is scheduled to be conducted from October 30 to November 3 for a total of 594 candidates. A total of 1480 candidates have been declared qualified in the APO Main examination. The Main exam was held from November 12 to 15, 2022.

The recruitment drive aims to fill up 553 vacancies, of which 188 vacancies are reserved for women candidates.

Steps to download BPSC APO Main 2020 hall ticket

  1. Visit the official website bpsc.bih.nic.in
  2. On the homepage, click on the APO Main 2020 hall ticket download link
  3. Key in your login details and submit
  4. BPSC APO interview call letter will appear on screen
  5. Download and take a printout for future reference

Direct link to BPSC APO Interview call letter 2023.

For more details, candidates are advised to visit the official website here.

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इंटरनेट डेस्क। समलैंगिक शादियों को मान्यता देने की मांग को लेकर सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने बड़ा फैसला दिया है। इस फैसले के बाद समलैंगिक शादियां करने वालों को झटका लगा है। इस मामले में सुप्रीम कोर्ट ले सुनवाई करते हुए कहा की समलैंगिक विवाह मौलिक अधिकार नहीं है। कोर्ट ने कहा कि ये विधायिका का अधिकार क्षेत्र है।

सुप्रीम कोर्ट की संविधान पीठ ने 3-2 से ये फैसला सुनाया। सेम सेक्स मैरिज पर फैसला सुनाते हुए चीफ जस्टिस डी वाई चंद्रचूड़ ने कहा कि सुप्रीम कोर्ट विशेष विवाह अधिनियम के प्रावधानों को रद्द नहीं कर सकती।

सीजेआई ने अपना फैसला सुनाते हुए समलैंगिक शादी को मान्यता देने से इनकार कर दिया। उन्होंने कहा कि उनकी राय में संसद को समलैंगिक विवाह को मान्यता देने के मामले में फैसला करना चाहिए। उन्होंने समलैंगिक समुदाय के खिलाफ भेदभाव को रोकने के लिए केंद्र और पुलिस बलों को कई दिशा-निर्देश भी जारी किए।

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As a horrifying video went viral on Friday of a teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district ordering students to slap a seven-year-old Muslim classmate, the police said they are investigating the matter.

“We will file the case after seeing the video and recording the statements of the child and his parents,” the sub-inspector at the Mansurpur police station told Scroll.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has also taken cognisance of the incident and “legal action is being taken”, the organisation’s chairperson, Priyank Kanoongo, said on the social media site X.

The child studied in the lower kindergarten at Neha Public School in Khubapur village, his parents told Scroll. His father, Irshad Tyagi, a farmer, identified the teacher as Tripta Tyagi.

In the video, after one student strikes the Muslim boy who is standing in front of the class, the teacher can be heard urging other students to get up and hit him harder. Off camera, a male voice can be heard approving the action.

“When my son came home yesterday he was crying,” said the boy’s mother, Rubina. “We didn’t take it seriously. We thought that the teacher must have punished him for not doing his home work. But when we saw the video we were shocked.”

The video was shot…

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While the number of those who filed income tax returns has increased in the past four years, the number of those who actually paid income tax has decreased substantially, data from the Union government shows.

On July 24, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented data before the Lok Sabha on the number of persons who filed income tax in the last four years, and the number of returns that amounted to zero liability.

The data showed that the number of individuals who filed income tax returns increased from 6.47 crore in 2019-’2020 to 7.40 crore in 2022-’23. The finance ministry cited the expansion of the scope of tax deducted at source and tax collected at source, simplification of personal income tax, pre-filling of income tax returns and the facility of updating returns within two years as reasons for the increase.

However, the number of persons whose income tax returns amounted to zero liability increased sharply in 2020-’21 and rose in subsequent years as well. While there were over 2.90 crore such persons in 2019-’20, there were over 5.15 crore of them in 2022-’23.

This meant that while 3.57 crore persons paid money in the form of income tax in 2019-’20, the number declined to 2.23 crore in 2022-’23.

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Shortly before he was admitted to hospital for surgery on July 20, Telugu revolutionary folk artist and balladeer Gaddar had told a press conference with a confident assurance that he would be back soon – fit and fine. It was a statement true to the fighting spirit of the poet-singer whose formal name was Gummadi Vittal Rao. But willpower was not enough. Gaddar died on August 6 after suffering from complications following a bypass. He was 77.

Gaddar’s death is an immeasurable loss to members of people’s movements, who were inspired by his voice to fight against injustice. By the 1990s, his powerful ballads against the exploitation of marginalised communities had made him a household name.

Gaddar’s long political and cultural journey began as a Naxalite in the 1970s. When Emergency was declared in 1975, Gaddar was jailed. He went underground after that. His political career has witnessed tumultuous events and unexpected twists and turns, Though that angered some, he remained an icon of the anti-caste struggle of Dalits and injustices against Adivasis.

To help those unfamiliar with Gaddar understand the nuances of his life, the socio-cultural context of his emergence and fame would be useful.

Enigma to beloved balladeer

The suppression of the 1969 Telangana movement for statehood…

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अगस्त 2023 में बैंक अवकाश: रिजर्व बैंक अपनी वेबसाइट पर महीने के हिसाब से बैंकिंग छुट्टियों की सूची अपलोड करता है और अगस्त 2023 में पड़ने वाली बैंक छुट्टियों की सूची भी जारी की गई है। इसके मुताबिक, शनिवार और रविवार की साप्ताहिक छुट्टियों को मिलाकर बैंक कुल 14 दिन बंद रहेंगे।

जुलाई का महीना खत्म होने वाला है और चार दिन बाद नया महीना अगस्त 2023 शुरू हो जाएगा. 1 अगस्त से देशभर में बैंकिंग से लेकर एलपीजी दरों तक में बदलाव देखने को मिल सकता है. वहीं, अगर आपको अगले महीने बैंक से जुड़ा कोई जरूरी काम है तो यह खबर आपके लिए भी बेहद जरूरी है। दरअसल, अगस्त महीने में कुल 4 दिन बैंक शाखाओं में कोई काम नहीं होगा और न ही चलन से बाहर किए गए 2000 रुपये के नोट बदले जाएंगे. भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक (RBI) ने बैंक हॉलिडे लिस्ट जारी कर दी है, जिसके मुताबिक कुल 14 दिन बैंक बंद रहेंगे।

RBI ने बैंकिंग अवकाश सूची अपलोड की
रिजर्व बैंक अपनी वेबसाइट पर महीने के हिसाब से बैंकिंग छुट्टियों की सूची अपलोड करता है और अगस्त 2023 में पड़ने वाली बैंक छुट्टियों की सूची भी जारी कर दी गई है। अलग-अलग राज्यों और शहरों में होने वाले त्योहारों और आयोजनों के अलावा अगले महीने की छुट्टियों में रविवार और दूसरे और चौथे शनिवार की छुट्टियां भी शामिल हैं। महीने की 6, 12, 13, 20, 26 और 27 तारीख को शनिवार और रविवार का साप्ताहिक अवकाश है। ऐसे में जरूरी है कि आप बैंक जाने से पहले आरबीआई की आधिकारिक वेबसाइट पर बैंक हॉलिडे लिस्ट चेक करने के बाद ही घर से निकलें, ऐसा न हो कि आप बैंक पहुंचें और वहां ताला लटका हुआ मिले।

भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक (RBI) विभिन्न राज्यों और घटनाओं के आधार पर अपनी बैंक अवकाश सूची तैयार करता है और इसे अपनी वेबसाइट पर अपडेट करता है। आप अपने मोबाइल पर इस लिंक (https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/HolidayMatrixDisplay.aspx) पर क्लिक करके भी महीने की हर बैंक छुट्टी के बारे में जान सकते हैं।

इन तारीखों पर बैंक बंद रहेंगे
दिनांक दिन कारण स्थान
6 अगस्त रविवार साप्ताहिक अवकाश सभी जगह
8 अगस्त मंगलवार टेंडोंग लो रम फाट गैंगटोक
12 अगस्त दूसरा शनिवार साप्ताहिक अवकाश हर जगह
13 अगस्त रविवार साप्ताहिक अवकाश हर जगह
15 अगस्त मंगलवार स्वतंत्रता दिवस सर्वत्र
16 अगस्त बुधवार पारसी नव वर्ष बेलापुर, मुंबई और नागपुर
18 अगस्त शुक्रवार श्रीमंत शंकरदेव की तिथि गुवाहाटी
20 अगस्त रविवार साप्ताहिक अवकाश हर जगह
26 अगस्त चौथा शनिवार साप्ताहिक अवकाश हर जगह
27 अगस्त रविवार साप्ताहिक अवकाश हर जगह
28 अगस्त, सोमवार पहला ओणम कोच्चि और तिरुवनंतपुरम
29 अगस्त मंगलवार तिरुवोनम कोच्चि और तिरुवनंतपुरम
30 अगस्त बुधवार रक्षा बंधन जयपुर और श्रीनगर
31 अगस्त गुरुवार रक्षाबंधन/श्री नारायण गुरु जयंती कानपुर, लखनऊ, देहरादून

छुट्टियों के दिन ऑनलाइन बैंकिंग से निपटना
बैंकों की छुट्टियां विभिन्न राज्यों में मनाए जाने वाले त्योहारों या उन राज्यों में होने वाले अन्य कार्यक्रमों पर भी निर्भर करती हैं। यानी राज्यों और शहरों में ये अलग-अलग हैं. हालाँकि, बैंकों की शाखाएँ बंद होने के बावजूद आप घर बैठे ही बैंकिंग से जुड़े काम ऑनलाइन कर सकते हैं। यह सुविधा हमेशा 24×7 चालू रहती है। आप ऑनलाइन ट्रांजैक्शन जैसे काम आसानी से निपटा सकते हैं।

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On a November afternoon in 1922, Indians gathered in large numbers in the heart of Durban. This wasn’t a political protest demanding greater rights, but the funeral of someone who the Indian Opinion, a newspaper started by Mahatma Gandhi, described as the “Grand Old Man of South Africa” – Parsee Rustomjee.

A big procession accompanied the cortege carrying the body of Rustomjee as it left his home for the Parsi cemetery. “There must have been over 5,000 persons following, consisting of every section of the Indian community, as well as Europeans who came from all parts of the town and district and from the villages of the north and south coasts and up-country towns to pay their last respects to this ‘Grand Old Man,’” the Indian Opinion said on November 21, 1915.

Gandhi personally paid a rich tribute to Rustomjee, calling his old friend from South Africa a “true solider” of India. The businessman and civil rights activist had been a pillar of the Parsi community in South Africa, and had played an influential role in getting it involved in Indians’ struggle there.

Racial hierarchies

Parsis began migrating to South Africa after the arrival of indentured Indian labour in the country in 1860. While their precise number is unavailable, one estimate is…

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In Rimli Sengupta’s A Lost People’s Archive, a book that insistently segues between fact and fiction, the unnamed narrator describes the Partition of India, on the west and the east, as two separate wounds, with very different outcomes. Punjab bled in the immediate aftermath of the announcement of the Radcliffe line and subsequent to the violence, the massive population exchange, and upheaval that it entailed, rehabilitation and reparations were attempted. Bengal, on the other hand experienced a delayed response. While many families from what now is Bangladesh, moved to India in the early months of 1948, the massacres of 1950 in East Pakistan forced hordes of those who had chosen to stay to flee across the border as refugees.

“These millions, brutalised and dispossessed like the west-gash refugees two years before, now arrived in India with its sympathy capital over spent. No crisp camps for them, no planned cities. Delhi insisted they had to go back, even though it was obvious that they could not. Trains disgorged them daily at Sealdah by the thousands. They swarmed Calcutta streets and its outskirts. (…) Retaliatory violence broke out against West Bengal’s Muslims and they began fleeing to East Pakistan.”

This reportage of events is perhaps not new to…

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It’s natural to feel lost when flooded with an enormous amount of information churned out by various entities on a daily basis. Apart from the lack of context, this feeling of loss is translated into distinct anxiety when the information pertains to the changing character of a democratic country. Hate speeches and communal dog-whistling by elected leaders, violence, rash policy decisions, and a crackdown on dissent and opponents have almost become normalised in India.

Many link these changes to the ascent of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014. In the past nine years, the party has cemented its control – albeit through controversial means at times – on the psyche of India. Observers feel it’s likely to retain power for a long time to come.

How and what has changed in India in the last nine years?

Well-known political economist and social commentator Parakala Prabhakar tries to answer just this question in his new book, The Crooked Timber of New India. In his view, as the subtitle of the book notes, the Indian Republic is in a “crisis”. This situation, Prabhakar feels, will not end even with the electoral defeat of the Narendra Modi-and-Amit Shah-led BJP.

Indeed, even if though the book concerns itself directly with only…

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On June 4, an urs procession was underway in the Fakirwada area of Ahmednagar. Young men danced as a Haryanvi song, Baap Toh Baap Rahega, played in the background. As the procession wound its way to a dargah, a few men held up framed images of the 17th-century Mughal ruler Aurangzeb.

One of them was a 31-year-old law graduate from Ahmednagar. “Just like Shivaji Maharaj is an emperor for some, Aurangzeb is an emperor for others,” he told Scroll.

Once the video of the procession went viral, several Hindu outfits in Ahmednagar protested and demanded the police take action.

The Maharashtra police registered a case against the 31-year-old and three of his friends under Sections 298 and 505(2) of the Indian Penal Code, which relate to hurting religious feelings and promoting enmity between communities, among others. They were detained by the police for a day.

The law graduate, who says he is a member of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, does not regret holding up the image. “The Constitution gives us freedom to follow whoever we want,” he said. “We did not commit a crime by holding up Aurangzeb’s poster.”

He objected to Hindu organisations stopping people from talking about the Mughal ruler. “Aurangzeb brought prosperity to India too and…

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जन्म एवं मृत्यु प्रमाण पत्र के लिए जन आधार नंबर जरूरी था। आर्थिक एवं सांख्यिकी निदेशालय ने पहले इस नंबर के बिना प्रमाणपत्र नहीं बनने को लेकर आदेश जारी किया था. लेकिन अब केंद्र सरकार ने लोगों को बड़ी राहत दी है. सरकार ने रजिस्ट्रार जनरल कार्यालय को बिना आधार के पंजीकरण करने की अनुमति दे दी है।

आधार अनिवार्य नहीं होगा

अब रजिस्ट्रेशन के लिए आधार नंबर की जरूरत नहीं होगी. आधार अनिवार्य नहीं होगा. 27 जून को एक नोटिफिकेशन जारी किया गया है. जिसमें कहा गया है कि ‘इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स और सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्रालय ने आरजीआई कार्यालय को जन्म और मृत्यु के पंजीकरण के दौरान दिए गए पहचान विवरण को प्रमाणित करने के लिए आधार डेटाबेस का उपयोग करने की अनुमति दी है।’

इस अधिनियम के तहत दी गई अनुमति

यह अनुमति जन्म एवं मृत्यु पंजीकरण अधिनियम 1969 के तहत मिली है. जिसमें कहा गया है कि नियुक्त रजिस्ट्रार को अन्य के साथ एकत्र किए जा रहे आधार नंबर के सत्यापन के लिए स्वैच्छिक आधार पर हां या ना का विकल्प चुनने की अनुमति दी जाएगी. रिपोर्टिंग फॉर्म जन्म या मृत्यु में मांगा गया विवरण।

निर्धारित दिशा-निर्देशों का पालन किया जाएगा

मामला जन्म के मामले में बच्चे, माता-पिता और सूचना देने वाले की पहचान करने के उद्देश्य से हो सकता है। राज्य सरकार और केंद्र शासित प्रदेश प्रशासन आधार प्रमाणीकरण के उपयोग के संबंध में मंत्रालय द्वारा निर्धारित दिशानिर्देशों का पालन करेंगे। साल 2020 में मंत्रालय ने नियमों को अधिसूचित किया था, जिसमें कहा गया था कि केंद्र सरकार सुशासन, सार्वजनिक धन के प्रवाह को रोकने और जीवन में आसानी प्रदान करने के लिए संस्थानों से अनुरोध करके आधार प्रमाणीकरण की अनुमति दे सकती है।

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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday suggested that even a short documentary on the Quran with discrepancies would cause a stir, Bar and Bench reported.

“If you make even a short documentary on the Quran depicting wrong things, then you will see what can happen,” a bench of Justices Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Shree Prakash Singh said while hearing petitions against the Hindi film Adipurush.

The judges, however, clarified that the court was concerned about the sentiments of all religions equally and they should not be depicted in a bad light.

Directed by Om Raut, Adipurush is an adaption of the Hindu epic Ramayana. It stars Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan, Kriti Sanon, Sunny Singh and Devdutta Nage.

The film has been criticised on social media for its gangster film-style dialogue, the over-reliance on visual effects and its casting choices. Many pointed out that the dialogues in the film are not only anachronistic to the period setting but also disrespectful of the source material.

Protests were also held across India against the film. Following the criticism, the makers of Adipurush announced that they will rewrite portions of the dialogue and issue new versions of the film.

On Wednesday, the Allahabad High Court said that it has come across several films in recent times wherein Hindu gods have…

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Women have played an important role in the preservation and safeguarding of knowledge systems in different communities and tribes in Mizoram. Although their contributions are not given enough attention and recognition, there is no denying that women can be seen as keepers of knowledge. Here, I hope to highlight their contributions to society through their writings spread over many decades.

A well-known Mizo saying holds that, “The wisdom of a woman does not/cannot cross the community water hole” (“Hmeichhe finin tuikhur ral a kai lo”). Despite the fact that this is how Mizo society sees its women and their wisdom, readings and recordings from folktales show that women contributed to the knowledge system of the Mizos in numerous ways. They handed down stories from one generation to the next, and they were keepers of traditional knowledge on weaving, cooking, agriculture, harvesting and preserving. With the arrival of Christianity, women also played the role of the keepers of cultural knowledge. In order to trace these histories, I draw from Mizo folktales, Agape editions, and monographs written by J Shakespear and AG McCall.

In his introduction to his collection of Mizo folktales Mizo Songs and Folk Tales, Laltluangliana Khiangte mentions that many of the folktales included in the…

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In 2008, the Union government had announced that it would establish eight new Indian Institutes of Technology with budgets allocated for the next six years, to expand technical education and promote social equity in India.

But about a decade since, these IITs have inadequate infrastructure, faculty shortages, they are financially dependent, and fail to attract students who clear entrance examinations for engineering courses, as per a Comptroller and Auditor General December 2021 performance audit report, which was made public in 2023. These issues negatively affect research projects and patents, the report said.

IITs are autonomous engineering education and research institutions, providing undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD programmes, along with research programmes in applied and interdisciplinary areas.

There were 23 IITs across India as of September 2022. The eight new IITs, approved and set up between 2008 and 2009 are IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Indore, IIT Jodhpur, IIT Mandi, IIT Patna and IIT Ropar.

An audit of these institutes was conducted between 2014 and 2019, involving records scrutiny, information gathering, physical inspections, and analysing incomplete infrastructure projects, equipment procurement and more.

Infrastructure delays

Of the eight IITs, by November 2020, four owned the land that the government had allotted to them, but the others had land possession issues for their campuses, including academic and residential areas, as well as various facilities, the Comptroller and Auditor General report found.

Each IIT developed…

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In the last one month, Saba Khan, 38, a former journalist, who lives in North Karnataka, has been called a whore, a slut, a spy, an apostate, among other names, on social media.

The vitriol started after she posted a tweet on May 15, calling out a group of Muslim men seen reprimanding two hijab-clad Muslim women for walking with a Hindu man in a market.

“They are showing their power on girls,” Khan tweeted, referring to a video of the incident that took place in Meerut on May 13. In the video, which was shared on many social media accounts, the men accost the women and yank off their face masks to reveal their identity. The women, who looked visibly uncomfortable, are heard saying that the man accompanying them was their colleague.

On May 15, the Meerut police registered a case and arrested six Muslim men in connection with the incident.

Since her tweet, Khan has been targeted on social media almost every day for supporting what is called the “bhagwa love trap” or “saffron love trap”, and purportedly enabling the arrests of the Muslim men.

She is not the only one. Nabiya Khan, a Delhi-based activist, was forced to briefly deactivate her Instagram account after she…

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For families that had a member with a mental illness, nearly a fifth of household monthly expenditure is spent on healthcare, on average, finds a study published in March 2023. Because of out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare, about 21% of these households dropped below the poverty line, the study found.

The study, “Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Poverty Impact Due to Mental Illness in India” published in the Journal of Health Management, highlights the financial impact of mental healthcare and the need for financial risk protection for households with members suffering from mental illness.

The study uses data from the 76th round of the National Sample Survey conducted between July and December 2018. During the survey, 6,679 households self-reported a person with mental illness as part of the Persons with Disabilities in India Survey.

Prevalence of mental illness

In 2016, the National Mental Health Survey by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, estimated that about 10.6% of India’s population, above 18 years, lived with a mental health condition. This excludes tobacco use disorders but includes other substance use disorders.

IndiaSpend has reached out to the director of National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Dr Pratima Murthy, for more information on the prevalence of mental health disorders, as well as the…

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Double-engine sarkar. Coined by the BJP, the Hinglish term refers to the fact that the saffron party often sells the idea to voters that having the same party in the state and the Centre will turbocharge development.

How true is it? Manipur currently offers a stark example of its working. The state is currently in a state of civil war, as two of its ethnicities attack each other in alternating waves of communal rioting and, in some cases, action by armed militant groups. It is clear that the state government has completely failed in its most important job: maintaining the peace. In fact, critics claim it is openly partisan, supporting one side of the conflict.

Oddly enough, the state government has come in for very little public censure from Delhi. The Indian Constitution has provisions to dismiss a state government in the case of a breakdown in constitutional machinery. However, the idea has never been discussed since…

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सतना। मध्यप्रदेश के सतना लोकसभा सांसद गणेश सिंह ने कहा कि भगवान श्री राम के जीवन से जुड़े सिद्धा पहाड़ को धार्मिक स्थल के तौर पर विकसित किया जाएगा।

श्री सिंह कल पर्यावरण दिवस पर आयोजित वृक्षारोपण कार्यक्रम के तहत भगवान श्री राम की प्रतिज्ञा स्थली सिद्धा पहाड़ के परिक्रमा पथ सहित अन्य स्थानों पर 60 लाख रुपये से अधिक के कार्यों का शिलान्यास कर रहे थे।

इस दौरान उन्होंने कहा कि सिद्धा पहाड़ को धार्मिक स्थल के तौर पर विकसित किया जायेगा।इस अवसर पर बताया गया कि ग्रामोदय विश्वविद्यालय के ललित कला विभाग द्वारा तैयार की जा रही 11 फीट ऊंची वनवासी भगवान राम की यहां प्रतिमा स्थापित होगी।

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इंटरेनट डेस्क। राजस्थान के मुख्यमंत्री अशोक गहलोत की ऐसी योजनाए है जो दूसरे राज्य भी अपना रहे है ताकी प्रदेश की जनता तो खुश रहे ही साथ ही लोगों को फायदा भी मिलता रहे। ऐसे में अब राजस्थान के बाद कर्नाटक में कांग्रेस सरकार ने फ्री बिजली देने का ऐलान किया है।

हाल ही में राजस्थान सरकार ने 100 यूनिट बिजली फ्री देने का ऐलान किया है। उसके साथ ही 101 से 200 यूनिट तक के सभी चार्ज माफ करने का ऐलान किया है। इसके बाद कर्नाटक के मुख्यमंत्री सिद्धारमैया ने कैबिनेट बैठक की और कहा कि कैबिनेट ने चालू वित्त वर्ष में सभी पांच गारंटी को पूरा करने का फैसला किया है।

गारंटी में से एक में 200 यूनिट मुफ्त बिजली शामिल है, जिसको लेकर उन्होंने कहा कि 1 जुलाई से ये प्रदेशभर में लागू किया जाएगा। हालांकि उन्होंने कहा कि बकाए का भुगतान ग्राहकों को करना होगा। सीएम सिद्धारमैया ने कहा 200 यूनिट बिजली मुफ्त होगी।

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The unpreparedness of healthcare establishments to protect workers from occupational hazards came into sharp focus during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nurses and sanitation workers drew attention to the lack of basic facilities like gloves, drinking water, and access to toilets.

The pandemic shed light on the challenges that healthcare workers routinely face: long working hours, high workloads, exposure to infectious diseases, hazardous chemicals, mental and physical strain. Adding to this are the psychosocial hazards such as fatigue, occupational burnout, distress or declining mental health, which affect the health and quality of work of healthcare workers.

Approximately 1,800 doctors died from Covid-19, the Indian Medical Association has estimated. As of September 22, data from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, indicates that 974 health workers had died from the virus.

But despite the significant risks that healthcare workers face there is no specific legislation to protect their occupational health and safety – apart from one narrowly applicable law in the context of HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, is the overarching legal framework that determines work standards in India. It addresses the health and safety concerns of factory and mine workers but fails to provide recourse…

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