Since 2004, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the centre introduced a series of rights-based entitlement programmes, scholarly and popular discussions of election outcomes have highlighted the influence of social welfare policies on voting behaviour. When we examine data on five major social welfare schemes, including the Public Distribution System, Ujjwala, MNREGS, Ayushman Bharat and the housing Scheme …
In the Data Point published last week, results from a government survey showed that an overwhelming number of inpatients are prescribed antibiotics by hospitals across India. Further, the data showed that over 55% of such antibiotic prescriptions belonged to the “Watch” group as classified by the World Health Organization, i.e., medicines reserved for only severe infections. Chart 2 | The …
On Friday, Grandmaster and 17-year-old D. Gukesh managed to achieve a feat that was registered only for a day on March 15, 2016, by then 29-year-old Indian GM P. Harikrishna. Gukesh’s win over Azerbaijan GM Misratdin Iskandarov in the FIDE World Cup was enough for him to lift his ELO live ratings to 2756 points, which helped him leapfrog Indian …
The 2021 Assembly election in West Bengal is going to be historic because the Bharatiya Janata Party has for the first time emerged as the main challenger to the incumbent government. Bogey of infiltration If there had been a substantial infiltration in West Bengal, then the decadal growth rate of population in the State would have been significantly higher than …
It is no exaggeration to observe that the coronavirus pandemic has been the single most newsworthy event of 2020, in a way and on a scale that has not been rivalled, over decades, by any other comparably unique phenomenon. Returning to TB, a disease that is indisputably agreed to be a scourge of the poor, it is bad enough that …
