Somesh Jha
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Business journalist. Master's candidate @mundusjourn . Fact checker & Researcher, @TBIJ . Past: @AJEnglish , @latimes , @reporters_co , @bsindia , @the_hindu
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Someone give me one good reason why this hatemonger TV anchor shouldn't be taken off air? And he is doing all this IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC!
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Let this be very clear.
Torching a bus was WRONG
Protestors destroying public property was HORRIBLE
Lathi-charging peaceful protestors was UNJUST
Police open firing at protestors was OUTRAGEOUS
Police throwing tear gas inside the Jamia University library was MONSTROUS
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Big news: A day after violence broke out in the JNU on Sunday, one of its professors, C P Chandrasekhar, resigned from a government-appointed committee, which was set to hold its first meeting to review India’s economic data.
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My last year's exposé on the Indian government's buried survey that showed the unemployment rate touching a 45-year high has found an honorable mention in the 2020 World Justice Project Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism 😊.
Congrats to 2020 WJP Anthony
#LewisPrize
Honorable Mention
@someshjha7
, recognized for his reporting on unemployment and a buried government survey in India:
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Will politicians also be arrested for spreading "fake news"? If that's the new norm?
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Listen to what this economics undergraduate student from Jesus & Mary College had to say. She had joined the DU protest on Wednesday. "I am not here to support any political party. I am here to demand answers. If tomorrow I want to study economics from JNU, will I be safe?"
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Scoop: Unemployment rate rose to a 45-year high of 6.1%, as per the NSSO's annual household survey of 2017-18 - the first one after demonetisation
Youth unemployment at astronomically high levels of 13-27%
More people moving out of the workforce.
Read:
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The Uttar Pradesh government exempts industries in the state from ALL LABOUR LAWS for the next 3 YEARS.
Only these labour laws will apply:
*Building and Other Construction Workers Act
*Section 5 of Payment of Wages Act
*Workmen Compensation Act
*Bonded Labour Act
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@rajshekharTOI
Ek-do musalmaano ka naam bhi likhdo jinhone cook kia hoga tabhi toh jake aapki story banegi 😅
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FB allowed a Reliance Jio-funded firm to promote India's ruling party BJP through divisive proxy ads during elections. A BJP leader's nephew runs the firm for Reliance,
@reporters_co
member
@Kum_Sambhav
finds out in part 1 of our latest investigation.
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A government official said today: “It was decided to announce the public sector bank mergers at 4 pm today because we knew the GDP numbers (6-yr low growth) would be out by 5.30 pm.” Headline management at its peak! 😐
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This was also perhaps the longest time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was silent with a mic in front of him.
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Lockdown 4.0 guidelines say "sports complexes and stadia will be permitted to open; however, spectators will not be allowed." IPL karwana hai kya?
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Just in: Government decides to junk the 2017-18 consumer expenditure survey due to "data quality issues."
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Looks like the Indian government stepped in to do what it does best: image management
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Hello PM
@narendramodi
, I will ask you some out-of-syllabus questions on jobs in this thread.
1. You had set up a committee under former Niti Aayog V-C Arvind Panagariya in 2017 to ascertain the right mix of statistics on jobs. Why haven't you made the final report public yet?
#ModiSpeaksToBharat
| बेरोजगारी पर मोदी जवाब- वाजपेयी सरकार के बारे में गलत प्रचार किया गया था
EXCLUSIVE इंटरव्यू रिपब्लिक भारत पर | अर्नब गोस्वामी के साथ LIVE
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Another day, another hidden NSO (earlier known as NSSO) survey, another scoop.
Consumer spending fell for the first time in more than four decades in 2017-18.
Consumer spending had last declined during extraordinary events in India's history.
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And you first read it here....
Scoop: Unemployment rate rose to a 45-year high of 6.1%, as per the NSSO's annual household survey of 2017-18 - the first one after demonetisation
Youth unemployment at astronomically high levels of 13-27%
More people moving out of the workforce.
Read:
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Close to one month since the protest began, Shaheen Bagh sees its biggest gathering yet.
#CAA_NRC_Protests
#CAAProtests
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It has been over a month since I took a major step back and left my job, thanks to something called
#burnout
. I had hit a wall.... A thread:
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Finance Minister Piyush Goyal says high unemployment rate is a “narrative created by some.”
No sir, it is based on the NSSO's survey.
He then says the nature of jobs are changing.
The NSSO report captures all nature of jobs - formal/informal/Ola/Uber.
Thank you.
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THREAD: In 2019, the Indian government decided to hide an important pan-India official survey on consumer spending. The data has been used to calculate the poverty and inequality levels in India.
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At the end of the day (or a quarter/financial year), you are just a cost to the company.
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Scoop: The Modi government’s push towards privatisation—the strongest India has seen in many years—faced resistance from key ministries within the administration.
Beginning today, we will tell you the story of 'The Privatisation Files.'
Read here:
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Breaking: Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives speech; BJP President Amit Shah holds press conference.
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A few days ago, Delhi Police weren't even allowing CAA protesters to gather with placards & were picking them up from their autorickshaws to detain them. There are people carrying sticks & bats roaming inside & outside the JNU campus while cops just let them pass. WHAT THE HELL!
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Why can't there be a press conference to clear the air on CAA, NRC and NPR once and for all? Why is the government afraid of questions? Why are clarifications being given through one-way communication?
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's tweet on 27 June 2013 when he was out of power 👇🏽
Sheila Dikshit's response after each rape - "what can I do? Delhi police not in my control." Do we want such a helpless CM?
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's politically-rhetoric speech in Parliament is full of himself, Nehru & the Congress' 50+ years in power. This after 8 years of being the PM (also, cherry-picking of facts to hide the Covid19 mismanagement & the economic mess of the past few years).
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What NSSO surveys cover
Sectors:
Formal
Informal
Organised
Unorganised
Workers:
Regular
Self-employed
Casual
Sectors:
Agriculture
Services
Manufacturing
Workers enrolled to:
EPFO
ESIC
PFRDA
Workers benefitted by:
MUDRA
MGNREGA
PM XYZ/ABC/KBC
And yes: Ola/Uber drivers
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A Republic TV reporter heckled an Employees' State Insurance Corporation doctor while he was on his way to work place (ESIC hospital, Noida). The journalist even accused the doctor of using a fake ID. The ESIC has issued a rebuttal. What kind of reportage is this,
@republic
?
Clarification on reporting by Republic TV on alleged violation of lockdown/curfew by Director(Medical), ESIC Hospital, Noida(Uttar Pradesh)
#ESIC
#Republictv
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I have a joke on the RTI Act but it's exempted for disclosure under Section 8.
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A brief analysis of
@SadhguruJV
's video on
#CAA_NRC
In the beginning, he says "I even wondered have I missed something really? Bcz I havent read the Act fully, I only know it from newspapers & what's generally out there."
#IndiaSupportsCAA
#IndiaDoesNotSupportCAA
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"In these times, we don't need more hatred, we need solidarity, we need love between people..."
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Breaking: Unemployment rate in 11 states higher than the pan-India average, shows NSSO survey
Among major states, Gujarat saw the fastest rise in the unemployment rate in 2017-18.
After Gujarat, the unemployment rate grew the most in MP, UP & Rajasthan
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India will not have official estimates on poverty in a period of one decade between 2011-12 and 2020-21!!!
Government says it will "examine" conducting the next official consumer expenditure survey in 2020-21.
Just in: Government decides to junk the 2017-18 consumer expenditure survey due to "data quality issues."
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What did not find a mention in the Finance Minister's Budget speech today:
India has reduced spending on 'medical and public
#health
' from Rs 74,820 crore in this year to Rs 41,011 crore in the next year due to "lower requirement of vaccination."
Source: Budget documents
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Breaking: The central government directs the States to transfer unutilised warfare funds for construction workers (to the tune of Rs 52,000 crore) to 35 million construction workers in India. Labour and Employment Minister
@santoshgangwar
writes to all the State chief ministers.
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A personal update: Monday was my last day at Business Standard and I can truly count the past 3 years as the golden phase of my career, where I got the opportunity to not only report but also break some of the biggest news stories during this period.
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Hearing that the income tax department has knocked on the door of the Newslaundry office at Sarvodaya Enclave in Delhi. The income tax officers are there since around 11.30 am.
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Delhi University students today.
#BharatBandh
#CAA_NRC
#CAA_NRC_Protests
#CAAProtests
#CAA_NRC_NPR
.
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Allocations slashed for rural employment scheme, MGNREGA, from Rs 98,000 crore in this year to Rs 73,000 crore in the next year.
Source: Budget documents
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Work in the private sector? Thanks to the Modi government, your company can now convert your permanent job into a fixed term contract and take away your retrenchment benefits.
Read our story:
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100 चूहे खाकर बिल्ली हज को चली 👇🏽
TIMES NOW suspends its election results coverage for 4 States & 1 UT on May 2.
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Meet 'Rambhakt' Gopal, the gun-wielding man who has been arrested by Delhi Police for firing who open fired at a protest rally near Jamia University in Delhi today.
He was trying to live stream the whole incident. Look at the comments on his video.
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Just in: Wardens of Sabarmati hostel in JNU, which was vandalised by goons on Sunday, have resigned. "We were unable to provide security to students."
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The Delhi Police is seen bullying victims of violence in the national capital. The police is asking them to sing the national anthem and mocking them for raising slogans of azadi (freedom).
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@RShivshankar
@ambkcsingh
@TimesNow
@ajaishukla
@adgpi
You are a disgrace to journalism. Admit it :)
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Arun Jaitley says the NSSO report showing unemployment rate at 6.1% - a 45-year high is a draft. Wrong. The report has been approved by the National Statistical Commission in December 2018. Doesn't need any further approvals.
#jobs
#Budget2019
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Big: The Supreme Court of India passes an interim order allowing free of cost COVID19 tests in both government and private labs.
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“It is absolutely shocking. This move turns the clock back by more than 100 years. It will lead to slave-like conditions for workers & it’s unacceptable, in violation of all human and fundamental rights,” labour law advocate Ramapriya Gopalakrishnan said.
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🚨New Investigation🚨
A year after the Modi govt came to power in 2014, India's finance ministry accused the Reserve Bank of India of setting interest rates to benefit developed countries & sought a probe. I write for
@reporters_co
&
@AJEnglish
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I spoke to some migrant workers and wrote a piece on what the
#COVID19
means for India's 471-million workforce.
They never felt more vulnerable than today and most of them have one question to ask, "will I be able to go home?". Thread follows:
Link:
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Just in: Lawyers are assembling at the Press Lounge, Supreme Court at 1:10 pm today to read out the Preamble of the Constitution of India
#CAAProtests
#CAA_NRC_Protest
#CAA_NRC
#CAA_NRC_NPR
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Just in: Government imposes a one-month moratorium on Lakshmi Vilas Bank. Cash withdrawal limit of Rs 25,000 imposed tor depositors.
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Anand Vihar bus station in New Delhi right now. Thousands of migrants have lined up to catch buses back home. Story out soon on
@bsindia
:
#Covid19India
#CoronaLockdown
#MigrantsOnTheRoad
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Happening right now at Shaheen Bagh
#CAAProtests
#CAA_NRC
#CAA
#CAA_NRC_Protests
Source:
@pooja_prasad
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Thread: Latest National Statistical Office report busts PM Narendra Modi's claims of open defecation free (ODF) rural India.
More than one-fourth of rural households might still be defecating in open as they didn't have access to toilets during 2018.
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An overwhelming day for me. Wait for tomorrow. There's more to it :)
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The MP government is planning to introduce radical changes to labour laws, including allowing more factories to operate without following safety & health norms & give a free hand to new companies to “keep labourers in service as per their convenience”.
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@vasudha_ET
@BDUTT
I don't need an apology. They need to apologise to public for misleading them. I knew from day 1 what I wrote was 100% correct as I had a copy of the NSSO report - one reason I didn't feel intimidated at all 🙃
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Post-budget gift by FM
@nsitharaman
to the fourth estate: No entry for journalists inside the North Block. First blow was a 10% customs duty on newsprint announced in the Union Budget.
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An AMU student plays flute as the crowd sings Saare Jahan se Accha
#CAA_NRC_Protest
#CAAProtests
#CAA
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FB allowed a large number of proxy advertisers to boost the visibility of the BJP during elections, an analysis of ads placed on FB across 22 months & 10 elections show.
@Kum_Sambhav
,
@neintara
&
@shreegireesh
write in part II of their investigation:
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This is an article written on November 30. The script was ready.
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Meanwhile, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has formed a committee headed by NSSO ADG A.K. Sadhu to find out who leaked the NSSO's employment report of 2017-18.
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Breaking: India's chief economic advisor wants the junked consumer spending report to be made public. Krishnamurthy Subramanian wrote to the National Statistical Commission seeking the survey report of 2017-18 for analysis in the upcoming Economic Survey.
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Exclusive: The National Statistical Commission, an autonomous body overseeing official statistics in India, caves under pressure from the government and decides not to release the NSO's consumer spending report of 2017-18.
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Part II (Thread): Demonetisation & GST destroyed more jobs than you could think. The NSSO's report throws a light on this. So, the unemployment rate is measured in two ways in the teport: usual status & current weekly status.
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A video of Sabarmati hostel in JNU being vandalised. Masked people seen holding sticks and creating terror.
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Career update: I will be moving to Europe later this month to do my masters. I got accepted into the two-year Erasmus Mundus journalism program in Aarhus University, Denmark and City University, London. I will take up financial journalism & hope to report on the global economy.
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Going to break an important news story shortly. Stay tuned.
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"How can applicants prove they r victims of religious persecution or fled the country of origin owing to such fear? To get proof, one has to go back to that country and get a police certificate. Why would a country admit there is religious prosecution?"
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Oh! I thought public demand was to help hundreds of stranded migrant workers reach home.
Happy to announce that on public demand, we are starting retelecast of 'Ramayana' from tomorrow, Saturday March 28 in DD National, One episode in morning 9 am to 10 am, another in the evening 9 pm to 10 pm: Minister Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar (file pic)
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Time to revise the syllabus:
1. Did India need a lockdown?
Looking at the inadequacy of the health system, yes.
2. Lockdown was in place for 2 months, why didn't it help?
Because it wasnt well planned. It was a hasty & unilateral decision (like demonetisation of currency notes)
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Part V: No one should say that the NDA government isn't secular. There was a spike in the unemployment rate across ALL religious groups and castes (SC, ST, OBC) in 2017-18.
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Big breaking news by
@TamalBandyo
: RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya quits six months before his term ends.
Asked for comments, Acharya tells
@bsindia
“A schoolteacher once told me: ‘When your work speaks for itself, do not interrupt’”.
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Breaking: Sebi chief Ajay Tyagi writes to the finance ministry, opposing move to transfer surplus funds from regulator to the central government. Says the Finance Bill proposal will hurt the autonomy of the regulator.
@shrimichoudhary
& I report
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.
@Suhelseth
had some questions. Even I had to ask him a question. So, I did. Now he has run away and deleted his tweet.
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Over 500 students and faculty of the Indian Statistical Institute issue a statement in solidarity with JNU. They add that educational institutes such as Jamia, AMU and BHU have been a victims of "systematic attacks" which is a "disgrace to our nation."
#JNUProtests
#CAA_NRC
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Were they able to think out of the box?
#Karnataka
At a private college in Haveri , college management made students to wear corrugated box to stop them from copying during exams. DDPI has issued notice to the college
@NewIndianXpress
@Amitsen_TNIE
@nimmasuresh
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Update: I have secured the Alfred Friendly-OCCRP Investigative Reporting Fellowship, 2022. I will be training at the Missouri School of Journalism for a week before moving to Los Angeles to work for the business team of the L.A. Times for 3 months beginning May. I am excited!
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A wolf in sheep's clothing 👇
T 3583 -
"There are two wolves who are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. The question is which wolf wins ? -The one we feed." ~ Ef
🙏
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Let me spell it out some of the labour laws which will no longer apply in the state:
The Minimum Wages Act
The Maternity Benefit Act
The Equal Remuneration Act
The Trade Unions Act
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act
The Industrial Disputes Act
The Factories Act
...
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Thread: Don't fall into the trap of various reports claiming job creation rose to an 11-month high in July. The government changed the way of computing payroll estimates. Going by its older formula, payroll numbers in July declined compared to June.
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Leaving the Congress party for their insensitivity towards women leaders is a fine move but then joining Shiv Sena which promotes bigotry and divisiveness.... What are we missing?
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Read how the RBI opposed the electoral bonds when the government sought its last-minute opinion on it.
The RBI said electoral bonds would set a “bad precedent” by encouraging money laundering & undermining faith in Indian banknotes,
@nit_set
reports:
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Raining cats and dogs in Delhi rn. Autorickshaw driver says, "Aisi barish 24 aur 25 ko honi chahie thi na. Koi bahar nahi nikalta. Dange hi nahi hote."
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Gurmeet Baba Rahim Singh was included in airport VIP lounge dignitaries list in April 2015 by the NDA government
@vijaita
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