1. India has set itself a challenging target to reduce maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births respectively under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved over the next 15 years.
2. A first-of-its-kind Taxpayer Satisfaction Survey conducted by the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) has revealed that just around 20% of the respondents are satisfied with the interface offered by the agency, underlining the need for re-orienting the indirect tax wing's focus towards customer satisfaction.
3. The Enforcement Directorate has told the government that its foreign investigations and probes into sensitive cases have been impacted as more than 70% of posts in the agency are lying vacant. It said no one was opting for a deputation in the ED for lack of incentive schemes in the agency.
4. BJP on Sunday mocked the secular alliance's Swabhiman rally in Patna, saying it served no purpose except for demonstrating Lalu Yadav's hold over the "anti-BJP combination".
