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It stopped brewing for Bengal tea-workers long ago despite shrub of promises

Shantanu Guha Ray - May 23, 2021

There is a kind of a hush in north Bengal where tea plantation workers, including those in the world’s finest gardens, voted in the...

J & K: Senior citizens, children, common man provided with financial aid in Covid-19 times

Newsbred Staff - May 12, 2021

Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha announced that senior citizens, who lost only earning members of their family due to covid-19, will be...

Temples: ‘34,000 in TN are managed by just one person who gets less money than under MGNREGA’

Newsbred Staff - April 6, 2021

“Free Tamil Nadu Temples” is a campaign which Sadhguru has begun. This was after the state government presented a report in the Madras High...

Rahul Gandhi’s Minimum Income Guarantee is a scary bluster

Ashish Shukla - January 29, 2019

Congress president Rahul Gandhi has promised a Minimum Guarantee Income (MIG) for “for every poor person” in the country and frankly he has bitten...

MSM Fake News Monitor: Express on Aadhaar

Ashish Shukla - October 5, 2017

If you believe that under the preceding UPA government: (a) lakhs of crores spent on subsidies and MGNREGA wages for the poor in this country...

New findings confirm worst fears on India’s poor

Ashish Shukla - August 2, 2015

The preliminary results of the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) are out. First the bare but not dry—unless the sweat, tears and blood of poor don’t...