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Auctions of gifts to PM Modi net ₹22.5 crore: RTI reply

Out of the 5,925 objects that were up for grabs, almost 21% did not get successfully auctioned

The Hindu · May 30, 2022

In April, most electoral bonds encashed in Hyderabad

Around ₹420 crore worth of electoral bonds were encashed in Hyderabad, while ₹100 crore were encashed in Chennai.

The Hindu · May 13, 2022

Ujjwala scheme | 90 lakh beneficiaries do not get refills

Over 1 crore got refills only once, shows RTI reply

The Hindu · May 12, 2022

Kerala: School dropout among tribal students continues unabated

KOCHI: Dropout of students belonging to scheduled tribes continues unabated as 861 ST students dropped out of schools in state during 2019-20 alone, revealed a reply by the general education department to an RTI query. They constitute a whopping 21% of the total dropout of students from all communities in…

The Times of India · Feb 5, 2022

Vidarbha continues to record higher farmer suicides

As per the information obtained under RTI, kins of an average of 50% dead farmers were found eligible for ₹1 lakh compensation from the State government

The Hindu · Jan 22, 2022

Mumbai Covid deaths topped cancer, heart attack in 2020

MUMBAI: Covid displaced usual chart-toppers heart attack and cancer to become the leading cause of death in the city in 2020. Out of 1.1 lakh total deaths recorded in the first year of the pandemic, 11,105 (10%) were Covid fatalities, 8,576 (7.6%) were cancer deaths and 5,633 (5%) were heart…

The Times of India · Jan 18, 2022