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DDC Members Administered Oath Across JK SRINAGAR: The elected members of maiden District Development Council (DDC) elections held in the history of Jammu and Kashmir were on  Monday administered oath by respective district heads across all the districts of Jammu and Kashmir. On the occasion, 138 DDC members representing 138 Block Constituencies of 10 districts of the division swore in the name of God and pledged to bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of India and also uphold the Sovereignty of India. AT SRINAGAR: The District Development Commissioner (DDC), Srinagar, Dr ...

As pandemic pushes India’s microfinance sector to the brink, women are the first to fall Loan disbursement by the sector fell by 97% in the April-June quarter compared to previous year. Representational image. | Arun Sankar/ AFP In early March, 30-year-old Pinky Devi took out her latest small loan in the densely populated state of Bihar, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Like the other sums of rural credit Devi has borrowed over the last 12 years, the Rs 100,000 did not go to her work as a seamstress but instead to her breadwinner husband. Thirty-two-year-ol...