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Indian Express Dated; May 04, 2020 The 130 districts in the red zone form 17 per cent of the total districts in the country, but account for about 33 per cent of the population (2011 Census). The 284 districts in the orange zone — 39 per cent of the total districts — account for about 43 per cent of the population. And the 319 districts in the green zone form 44 per cent of the total districts, but account for only about a quarter of the population. While 17 per cent of the population in the red zone are in Maharashtra, 16 per cent are in Uttar Pradesh and 12 per cent in West Bengal. According to the revised guidelines, green zones are those which have not reported any fresh case in the last 21 days, down from the 28 days earlier. Red zones are defined “by taking into account the total number of active  COVID-19  cases, doubling rate of confirmed cases, extent of testing and surveillance feedback.” The new classification means that some districts which have not r...

Boomberg April 14, 2020 Jennifer Epstein Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe Biden on Monday in an effort to persuade his loyal supporters to support the presumptive Democratic nominee, saying that Americans of all political affiliations should back the former vice president to defeat President Donald Trump. “Today I’m asking all Americans, I’m asking every Democrat, I’m asking every independent, I’m asking a lot of Republicans to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy,” Sanders said on a livestream organized by Biden’s campaign, which had been billed as an update on the candidate’s plans to tackle the coronavirus crisis. “We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president and we need you in the White House,” Sanders told his former opponent, side-by-side on a split screen from their homes in Burlington, Vermont, and Wilmington, Delaware. “I will do all that I can to see that that happens.” The surprise announcement came less than a week after Sanders dropp...

First Post April 14, 2019 Ajay Verghese And Roberto Stefan Foa In contemporary India there are few problems as intractable as that of Hindu-Muslim conflict. From 1950 to 1995, over 7,000 Indians, overwhelmingly Muslim, died in communal rioting. The 1980s in particular witnessed an upsurge in Hindu nationalist politics that led to the 1992 destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and the Gujarat riots of 2002. Since the 2014 electoral victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India has witnessed more instances of sectarianism, including beef ban, cow-protection vigilantism and anti-Muslim mob lynching. Much of this violence against Muslims has been waged as revenge for supposed historical wrongs meted out to the Hindu community. In the words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hindus suffered “a thousand years of slavery” during the medieval era. Scholars either associated with or sympathetic to Hindutva have made a number of similar assertions: that in the past, millions ...

By: Pragya Srivastava | Updated: August 8, 2018 12:54 PM Public sector companies (PSUs) have beaten the private sector in the financial year 2017-18 by registering an employment growth of 8%, higher than the latter’s 6.3%, a study has shown. The PSU job growth was mainly driven by 58% employment growth in the logistics sector, 13% in the finance sector, and 8% in the banking sector, a Care Ratings study said. The study of employment growth in 700 companies also showed that overall job growth has declined in FY18 as compared with previous fiscal even as there was robust sales growth in some cases. The total permanent employees in the sample of these 700 companies increased from 3.98 million in FY16 to 4.29 million in FY17, further increasing by 6.6% in FY18 to touch 4.57 million. “There has been a marginal dip in the employment growth from 7.7% in FY17 to 6.6% in FY18 indicating pressures of job creation,” the study said. The companies with net sales of more than Rs 10...

By  Surbhi Kapila Posted On :  December 22, 2017,  New Delhi A recent study by a leading online travel agency states that Indians are vacation deprived, mostly owing to reasons, not in their control. Busy work routines are depriving Indians from going on vacations, a recent study has revealed. Globally, India has been ranked as the fifth most vacation deprived country due to heavy work schedule. The statement was made after 60 per cent respondents corroborated with the view during a survey conducted by Expedia Vacation Deprivation Report 2017. Expedia is a full-service online travel agency. South Korea stood at number one position with 82 per cent, followed by France (66 per cent), Malaysia (65 per cent) and Hong Kong (64 per cent), the report showed. Among the least vacation deprived country Norway is ranked number one at 38 per cent followed by the Netherlands (39 per cent), Ireland (44 per cent), Sweden (44 per cent) and Taiwan (44 per cent). The ...