When economic activity at the district level is into account, it distorts our understanding or Regional and wrong development The allocation of public resources | Photo credit: handy kumar Each policy, budget and economic prognosis is based on a fundamental number: the gross domestic product (GDP). But what if that number is wrong? What happens if we have a bone underestimating the true size of the economy of India for years, especially at the local level? Despite our national obsession with growth, the methods we use to calculate GDP, particularly at the district level, are outdated, high level and blind…
Author: John Anderson
From President Donald Trump Tok’s office, his administration dismissed almost half of the division of the Department of Education that manages civil rights investigations and changed his approach. The Administration stopped work in thousands of pending discrimination cases while ordering investigations aligned with their priorities. Some people have talked about their cases in limbo or not receiving updates. We know that there are thousands of other affected people. We need your help to see the complete image of how the dismantling of the civil rights office is affecting students, parents, school employees and their broader communities. If you filed a…
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (Apsez) increased 6% and Adani companies earned 3% in Friday’s trade after strong results of the FY25 of the fiscal year. | Photo credit: Amit Dave/Reuters Adani’s ports and the special economic zone joined 6 percent and Adani companies rose 3 percent in Friday’s trade after the quarter quarter.Adani’s ports approached 6 percent to ₹ 1,285.45 at 11.16 am, after reaching a maximum of ₹ 1294.85 in the EEB.Adani Enterprises won 3 percent to a maximum intradic of ₹ 2,370. At 11.18 am, he quoted 1.51 percent positive to ₹ 2,332.50 in the EEB.Adani…
Propublic announced Thursday that Gus García-Roberts has been hired as a national reporter. García-Roberts arrives in Propublic from the Washington Post, where he published investigations on death by overdose of Los Angeles pitcher Angels Tyler Skaggs; The accusations of sexual abuse against the Dodgers of Los Angeles, Trevor Bauer, and the secret system of Major League Baseball to examine domestic abuse and sexual assault; And how the NFL has failed in the hiring of black coaches, part of a series that the main sports editors of Associated Press for projects and the online journalism awards prize awards in sports reports.…
Propublic is a non -profit writing room that investigates power abuses. Register to receive our biggest stories as soon as they are published. The Texas Senate has unanimously approved legislation that aims to prevention of maternal deaths under the strict prohibition of state abortion. Written in response to Propublic’s investigation last year, bill 31 of the Senate, described the mother’s life law, represent a notable turn between Republican legislators than the original supporters of the prohibition. For the first time in four years, they acknowledged that women were denied attention due to the confusion about the law and to clarify…
In 2011 (excluding the NPR update) and 2001, the census cost around ₹ 2.2 billion rupees and more than ₹ 650 million rupees, respectively. | Photo credit: Mohd Arif As the Cabinet Political Affairs Committee decided to include caste enumeration in the next census, the government is expected to provide money for the census in the complementary demands of subsidies (SDG).The Budget of the Union for Fiscal Year 2025-26 has provided a little more than ₹ 500 million rupees under the ‘Survey and Statistics of the Chief Census. According to the notes at the foot of the document, it includes…
This article was produced by ProPublica in partnership with The Oregonian/OregonLive. Sign up for Dispatches, to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In Phnom Penh’s hot season, when the Cambodian capital’s sweltering, subtropical air routinely soars to 100 degrees, more workers than usual visited the infirmaries inside a factory that made baby clothes for Nike, the world’s largest athletic apparel brand. As many as 15 people a month typically became too weak to work in May and June, according to a medical worker employed by the factory. Even at other times of year, she said,…
The Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) has transferred indigenous developed diagnostic technology to quickly detect tuberculosis (TB) to a private company for commercial production, according to an official launch issued on Thursday.The ICMR Regional Medical Research Center, North EAST (ICMR-RMRC NE) has announced the successful transfer of its Crispr-based diagnostic technology indigenous for the ultra-sensitive and rapid detection of TB to the medical diagnostic firm for large-scale marketing.The transfer of formal technology to Meril Diagnostics was implemented by signing a memorandum of agreement (MOA). This development reaches a crucial situation as India intensifies its efforts towards the ambitious objective of…
Propublic is a non -profit writing room that investigates the abuses of power. Register to receive our biggest stories as soon as they are published. An inspector General of the Department of the Treasury is investigating the efforts of President Donald Trump and the Efficiency Department of the Government of Elon Musk to obtain data from private taxpayers and other confidential information, internal communications reviewed by Propublica Show. The Office of the Inspector General of the Treasury for the Fiscal Administration has requested a wide strip of information from the IRS employees. In depriving, the office, seeks any request for…
Oregon Ron Wyden Senator | Photo credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP The Republicans of the Senate detected little democratic resolution on Wednesday that would have blocked the global tariffs announced by Donald Trump earlier this month, giving the president a modest legislator of the victory in both parties, they have Remers Rave Rave.Trump announced the great friction tariffs in almost all US commercial partners on April 2 and then reversed a few days later after a market crisis, suspending import taxes for 90 days. Amid uncertainty for both US consumers and companies, the Commerce Department said Wednesday that the US economy was…