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Assam has elected 14 candidates with a criminal record–11% of the total assembly, the same proportion as 2011
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Five of the 13 countries—Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria—are from relatively prosperous Arab north Africa
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India’s ambitious toilet-construction programme–part of the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) mission to make India open-defecation free by 2019–is slipping, according to government data submitted to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament.
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No more than 17.6% of urban solid-waste (garbage) was processed as of March 2016, against a target of 30%, set last year under the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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The only bright spot in the state’s stressed economy is the services sector, employing 44 million people and likely to grow 10.8%, followed by industry at 5.9%: Survey
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There has been a steady increase in the incidence of communicable diseases over the last five years, except malaria which saw a 14 per cent decline
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Municipal Corporations have limited management capabilities, IndiaSpend had reported earlier, crippling many urban programmes.
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The absolute number of poor as well as the proportion of poor below the poverty line (according to the Tendulkar poverty line) has been declining over two decades
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As many as 58% of Indians in rural areas opt for private healthcare (68% in urban areas), as we reported, because public healthcare is inadequate, and healthcare expenses push an additional 39 million people back into poverty every year,
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