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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Over 90% in Hindi-belt states speak only one language, rest of India is more bilingual: Data

The latest exchanges between Tamil Nadu and the Centre over Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan funds have reignited the long-standing language debate. Chart 3 shows the share of English speakers among native language speakers in 1991 and 2011. Chart 3 | The chart shows the share of English speakers among native language speakers A similar trend of declining or stagnating English proficiency …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Odisha joins States’ pitch for 50% share of divisible tax pool

The Hindu

Odisha has joined the growing demand for the Finance Commission to raise States’ share in India’s divisible tax pool to 50%, from about 41% currently. The Odisha CM has sought ₹12,59,148 crore from the Commission for the five-year period from 2026-27 to 2030-31, noting that “the funds will help the State in steering the roadmap to a Samruddha Odisha by …

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2 months ago

Here’s what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. When the agreement was signed Dec. 12, 2014, then-President Barack Obama called it “the best chance to save the one planet we have.” Environmentalist activists form a human chain representing the peace sign and the spelling …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortions are up in the US. The data paints a complicated picture

Associated Press

Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Overturning Roe and enforcing abortion bans has changed how woman obtain abortions in the U.S. “Abortion bans don’t actually …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Real Wage Growth Flat in the Past Five Years

Deccan Chronicle

Chennai: The overall real wage growth at the national level has remained flat between Q2FY20 and Q1FY25. The growth of overall real wage, which is nominal wages deflated by state-specific Consumer Price Index, at the national level has been flat at 0.01 per cent over 2QFY20-1QFY25. The share of private sector jobs within the non-agricultural sector increased to 11.3 per …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Being Black in Germany has never been easy. Elections in eastern states could make it harder still

Associated Press

ERFURT, Germany — It was a balmy summer night in 2020, shortly after the lifting of Germany’s first COVID-19 lockdown, and Omar Diallo and two friends from his home country of Guinea wanted to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print People wave German national flags …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Here are the best and worst states for your child’s education

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A recent WalletHub analysis ranked the best and …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Taxes should be shared appropriately with states: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah

Hindustan Times

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday emphasised on distribution of the net proceeds of taxes to be shared between the Centre and the States, and the allocation between the States of the respective shares of such proceeds. Explaining that GST is an indirect tax, the CM said that before GST was introduced, the Government of Karnataka collected taxes through VAT. …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

How Akhilesh, not Tejashwi, won Mandal battle

Hindustan Times

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are two states where Mandal politics took shape in India. A more representative SP alliance could have got it the critical vote share advantage The vote share and seat share numbers of the INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh tell the story. While the vote share of INDIA bloc is just about four percentage points different, 43.5% …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: A vote for mission and vision in Odisha

India Today

General Elections for the 18th Lok Sabha in the world’s largest democracy is underway. If the higher growth rate of Odisha must be sustained, ease of doing business must be improved, workforce must be skilled and be moved to manufacturing and services, MSME and the entrepreneurial ecosystem must be strengthened, exports must be raised and diversified, and labour force participation …

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11 months ago

South Indian states, including Bengaluru, lead with 62% share of the senior living housing segment

Hindustan Times

South Indian states, including Bengaluru, lead with 62% share of the organized senior living and care segment followed by the north zone with 25% and the central states with 13%, said a new report by CBRE titled ‘Golden opportunities from the silver economy – analyzing the future of senior care in India’. South Indian states lead with 62% share of …

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1 year ago

Can BJP raise its Lok Sabha tally despite skewed regional showings?

Hindustan Times

This question is best answered by looking at just one chart which plots the BJP’s seat share in the 2019 elections and the change in its vote share between the 2014 and 2019 elections. In all of these PCs, the BJP actually increased its vote share between the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections except in Daman & Diu. Now, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Heads Of State: Priyanka Chopra announces her next; to share screen with John Cena, Idris Elba

Firstpost

Helmed by Naishuller, Heads Of State’s script has been written by Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec. Much to the delight of her fans, the global star has now announced her next film Heads Of State, co-starring John Cena and Idris Elba. Taking to social media, Bollywood’s desi girl shared the big news and wrote, “On to the next”. Apart from …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Data | Share of Tamil Nadu women who consumed green leafy vegetables declines drastically

The Hindu

In 2019-21, only 10.6% of women in Tamil Nadu consumed dark green, leafy vegetables daily — the lowest share among all the States. Second, while only 10.6% of women consumed such vegetables daily, 42.5% of men in Tamil Nadu consumed them daily in 2019-21 — a difference of 31.9% points, the highest among all the States considered. Therefore, Tamil Nadu …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Learning to live together, all eight billion of us

The Hindu

The United Nations estimates that the world population will reach 8 billion on November 15, 2022. Our minds had barely wrapped around a global population of 7 billion in 2011, and now, only 12 years later, we are looking at a population of 8 billion. To put this in historical perspective, it took from the dawn of humankind to about …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Uttar Pradesh had the highest share in Centre’s FY22 excise revenue

Live Mint

NEW DELHI: The state of Uttar Pradesh received the biggest share of central government’s revenue collections from excise duty on petroleum products in FY22, followed by Bihar, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, as per official data. Uttar Pradesh received about ₹6,693 crore last fiscal from the Centre’s excise duty collection which was shared with states as per a formula prescribed …

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2 years, 8 months ago

GST compensation sunset: Punjab, Goa, Chhattisgarh may face most revenue stress

The Hindu

With the sunset of the five-year assured compensation for States under the Goods and Services Tax regime from this month, Punjab, Goa and Chhattisgarh are likely to face the most revenue stress, as per a new working paper by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. The paper, titled ‘Revenue Assessment of GST in India’ by NIPFP associate professor …

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4 years ago

US plans to send 4 mn doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico, Canada: Official

Live Mint

Washington: The United States plans to send roughly 4 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine that it is not using to Mexico and Canada in loan deals with the two countries, an administration official told Reuters on Thursday. Mexico will receive 2.5 million doses of the vaccine and Canada will receive 1.5 million doses, the official said. The Biden administration …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Three crore Covid tests later, where does India stand?

India Today

This is one milestone India will be happy to have hit. On August 17, India announced that it had reached 3 crore tests, thus, becoming only the fourth country for which testing data is available, to have conducted as many tests after China, the United States and Russia. The only caveat: a large share of India's recent increase in testing …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana got more funds: Nirmala Sitharaman

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday gave a strong retort to the charges of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and other TRS leaders about the Centre starving Telan-gana state of funds by reducing states’ share in Central taxes and by not releasing the GST amount. The Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman who was in Hyderabad as part of …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Data | What is the state of start-ups in India

The Hindu

The startup ecosystem is only concentrated in a few States as of 2019. States with the highest start-ups image/svg+xml Preferred sectors The data and analytics sector was the most preferred choice for start-ups by a wide margin, followed by health, education and agriculture. Which sectors had the most start-ups image/svg+xml Funding sources Friends and families remain the biggest source of …

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6 years, 7 months ago

Opinion: The urgent need for states to get fiscally fit

Live Mint

The recent report, “State Finances: A Study of State Budgets 2018” by the Reserve Bank of India confirms what has been observed for a while; that the state of state finances is in “deep trouble” territory. States implementing wage increases reported a 28% growth in revenue expenditure while interest payments grew 16% driven by the market borrowing binge of recent …

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7 years, 9 months ago

Amit Shah wraps up Kerala visit, sets poll target of 40% vote share for BJP workers

Firstpost

BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday wound up his three-day Kerala visit with a call to the party workers to strive hard to “utilise the space” in the southern state’s political arena, saying there was “enough potential” for the saffron party’s growth there. Thiruvananthapuram: BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday wound up his three-day Kerala visit with a call to …

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7 years, 10 months ago

Tasmanian Government to fight 'tooth and nail' to prevent changes to 'fair' GST carve-up

ABC

Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman says he will fight "tooth and nail" to block any proposal to change the GST revenue distribution between states and territories. GST revenue is handed out using a formula called horizontal fiscal equalisation, and next financial year Tasmania is set to get about the same amount as Western Australia, despite the difference in population. Tasmania entitled …

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Over 90% in Hindi-belt states speak only one language, rest of India is more bilingual: Data

Odisha joins States’ pitch for 50% share of divisible tax pool

Here’s what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do

Abortions are up in the US. The data paints a complicated picture

Real Wage Growth Flat in the Past Five Years

Being Black in Germany has never been easy. Elections in eastern states could make it harder still

Here are the best and worst states for your child’s education

Taxes should be shared appropriately with states: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah

How Akhilesh, not Tejashwi, won Mandal battle

Opinion: A vote for mission and vision in Odisha

South Indian states, including Bengaluru, lead with 62% share of the senior living housing segment

Can BJP raise its Lok Sabha tally despite skewed regional showings?

Heads Of State: Priyanka Chopra announces her next; to share screen with John Cena, Idris Elba

Data | Share of Tamil Nadu women who consumed green leafy vegetables declines drastically

Learning to live together, all eight billion of us

Uttar Pradesh had the highest share in Centre’s FY22 excise revenue

GST compensation sunset: Punjab, Goa, Chhattisgarh may face most revenue stress

US plans to send 4 mn doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico, Canada: Official

Three crore Covid tests later, where does India stand?

Telangana got more funds: Nirmala Sitharaman

Data | What is the state of start-ups in India

Opinion: The urgent need for states to get fiscally fit

Amit Shah wraps up Kerala visit, sets poll target of 40% vote share for BJP workers

Tasmanian Government to fight 'tooth and nail' to prevent changes to 'fair' GST carve-up