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3 days ago |
hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha |Roshan Kishore
Who is backward? Who is not? – II | Number Theory May 12, 2025 09:27 AM IST . The first part of this series used three proxies for lack of economic affluence – MGNREGS or outdoor work, malnourishment among children, and college education for different generation of household members – and cross tabulated them with social groups to find a link between economic deprivation and caste. The second part of this series will do a similar exercise with proxies for economic affluence.
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4 days ago |
hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha
North-western, western, and north-eastern regions of India experienced a warmer than normal April. For the former two regions, the first eight days of May have brought relief from that heat. The weather in the May so far is almost a mirror image of the weather in April for north-western and western India. PREMIUM An HT analysis suggests that this is because rainfall trends in May so far have also turned into almost a mirror image of April rainfall trends.
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6 days ago |
hindustantimes.com | Jayashree Nandi |Abhishek Jha
Frequent, slow-moving western disturbances -- essentially, cyclones originating in the Mediterranean Sea and moving east -- in the first week of May have resulted in an unusually cool, rainy start to what is usually the peak summer month for northwest India. It has also led to relatively cleaner air in May with all days in “moderate” category so far except one when it dropped to “poor” in Delhi.
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6 days ago |
hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha
The details of the 2 million excess deaths in 2021 | Number Theory May 09, 2025 07:35 AM IST . HT exclusively reported the data released by the home ministry that India recorded almost 2 million more deaths in 2021 – the deadliest year of the Covid-19 pandemic in India – than the preceding few years. Data from another report also showed that 81,000 more deaths were eventually attributed to Covid-19 than was first reported in the official pandemic bulletins issued by states.
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1 week ago |
hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Jha
India likely recorded almost two million extra deaths in 2021, the deadliest year of the Covid-19 pandemic, than it did in the preceding few years. It also recorded 81,070 more deaths because of the pandemic than what was captured in the official death toll. These numbers were released in three reports released on Wednesday by the Office of the Registrar General of India (RGI), under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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