This has huge implications for the upcoming elections, democracy and people’s access to basic rights and entitlements #Aadhaar #aadhaardeactivation

current state of AI: for profit companies/corps spend unthinkable amount of funds & burn massive resources to produce half-baked tech where the onus to evaluate the tech, surface problems, & come up with solutions all fall on under-sourced researchers and institutions

THREAD In a landmark judgement #Rajasthan High Court has ordered a compensation of Rs.4 lakh to a woman who was forced to give birth on the road after being denied care by a CHC. An incident of 2016, Prayas had conducted its fact finding n got the petition filed the same year. +

What happens to your sensitive data when data brokers sell data to other companies? themarkup.org/privacy/2024/0…

The Sickle cell anaemia elimination mission requires a design rethink. Sundararaman and I write rthresources.in/conversations-…

Biometrics were always supposed to be cloned. The bureaucracy won't accept the defects in the design and police not always are interested to do a crackdown.

India Tops the World in Fake News youtu.be/RpzohO05r9I?si… via YouTube

Only 5.7% of the elderly receive pensions, while 59% of elderly women have no source of income. How will they afford a dignified life? Read our story: indiaspend.com/governance/wha…

The women making iPhones in India live in hostels that don't allow them to venture out during the week for anything other than the commute to the factory Read Johanna Deeksha's eye-opening report scroll.in/article/106402…

‼️Indian Railways has floated a tender for the installation of 3.3L facial recognition-enabled CCTV cameras inside railway coaches with a central face-matching server to surveil & identify passengers (adults & children) to ‘curb crime’. (1/7) internetfreedom.in/indian-railway…

#MeetUp #ThisFriday Team SFLC.in is hosting #MonthlyCommunityMeetUp! Come and join us for a #FilmScreening and conversation about the importance of #factchecking! When: April 26th, 2024 Time: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Where: SFLC.in Office, K-9, Second Floor, Birbal

reuters.com/world/india/un… "Following a decade of near jobless growth, the rising number of discouraged workers had pushed India's LFPR (labour force participation rate) down well below levels exhibited by the four Asian tigers at comparable stages in their demography,"

"India's Public spending on #health has 🔼, due to STATES & not Centre. GOI has 🔽 National Health Mission (NHM) budget by avg 5.5% in real terms between 2019-24. & 🔼spending of Govt. funded #healthinsurance schemes (#AyushmanBharat PMJAY scheme). " ✍️ by Health Economist Dr.

IMPORTANT REVIEW in Lancet provides evidence challenging justifications for health-care privatisation Most studies in Review suggest privatisation reduces quality of care and worsens health outcomes of patients treated in privatised health-care settings thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Beyond #VandeBharat, #IndianRailways costlier, with fewer passengers, losing money: Aniket Aga analyses 20 yrs of data. Under #Modi, non-suburban passengers fell 32% & broad-gauge train travel doubly expensive from 2013-14 THREAD 1/8 article-14.com/post/costlier-…

₹1,750 crore lost to cyber fraud in 2024 so far etciso.in/s/56bax9d via ET CISO

Why Pandemic Agreement Negotiations Failed to Land | Think Global Health thinkglobalhealth.org/article/why-pa…

Billboard governance: Under Modi, majority of 906 schemes faced funding squeeze: reporters-collective.in/trc/billboard-…

The NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳 has issued instructions with regard to heatwaves restricting outdoor jobs to cooler times of the day. NDMA, headed by PM Modi and State DMAs headed by CMs, must issue orders to protect street vendors, construction workers, Safaikaramchis, and other outdoor workers

Lack of separate funding for TB-Mukt Panchayat initiative, a focus on targets at the cost of the process, and a lower threshold for declaring a panchayat ‘TB-free’ compared to global norms are diluting the efforts of the initiative, experts say: indiaspend.com/health/panchay…