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Ah, India! Oh, India!

by Gyanvitaranam

y India has the dubious distinction of being home to 400 million out of 1200 million extremely poor people in the world as reported by UN’s Millennium Development Goals Report 2014.

y Around 87% of HIV-infected people in India are not aware that they are suffering from the disease and may be unknowingly spreading the virus. In 2015, the total number of people living with HIV in India was estimated at 21.17 lakh, whereas 86,000 new HIV cases were found.

y Nearly 600 million people in India are not using toilets.

y Amritsar, Lucknow, Alappuzha and Thrissur were among the 10 worst cities where CSAM - child sexual abuse material-was shared on multiple occasions in the past six months. Amritsar took top place with more than 4.3 lakh ‘files of interest’ - code for child porn - shared between July 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017. Delhi was second followed by Lucknow.

y Motorcycle deaths in India in 2013 totalled a shocking....

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