-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Traders and stockists seem to be making a killing as onion prices have soared across the country in the past 2-3 weeks. The staple kitchen item was selling at around Rs 80 per kg in the market in Delhi, as a substantial jump in prices was reported from Delhi's wholesale mandis. Prices of pulses have also gone up considerably in the past three weeks. Now there...
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Government moves to minimise impact of SC Aadhaar verdict -Aloke Tikku
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: A week after the Supreme Court delivered its interim order on use of Aadhaar numbers, the government on Thursday decided to continue seeding the identity numbers into the database of beneficiaries if people voluntarily shared the numbers. The government has also found a way to minimise the impact of the verdict on Aadhaar-linked schemes. The Supreme Court had, last week, restricted the government from using the Aadhaar number for...
More »South India tops child marriage chart -Shemin Joy
-Deccan Herald Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have earned the ignominy of topping the chart of child marriages in the country. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report depicts a worse picture of south India as five states from the region — Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — together account for almost half of the 280 cases of child marriage in the country. However, the data shows the biggest lacuna...
More »The slaughter of suicide data -P Sainath
-Frontline Changing the way you count changes the count. THE total number of farmer suicides in the country since 1995 crossed the 3,00,000-mark in 2014. However, the 2014 data are not comparable with 19 earlier years of farm suicide data. This is because of major changes in the methodology of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). With the new parameters, the number of farmer suicides in 2014 falls to 5,650. That is...
More »Spectre of drought rubs salt on wounds of farmers in Karnataka -Nagesh Prabhu
-The Hindu Bengaluru: After slump in prices and harassment from moneylenders, the farming community now faces another hardship – failure of kharif crops owing to severe drought. About 26 per cent of the sown area has withered owing to scanty rainfall in more than 20 districts of the State. Already nearly 200 farmers committed suicides owing to indebtedness and other reasons in the last four months in the State. The South-West monsoon being...
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