Former BJP state president Suresh Pujari has opposed the arRest of a NREGA whistleblower in Jharsuguda district. Pujari said Gunanidhi Barik, former sarpanch of Lakhanpur block, has been falsely implicated by police and demanded a probe into it. Barik had tried to stop the block supervisor from taking signature of the NREGA beneficiaries without releasing the money and warned him of dire consequences if the Rest amount is not paid. The...
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Webcasting in 2011 assembly elections by Swati Sengupta
Webcasting is the newest technology the state election department adopted for the 2011 Assembly polls. In fact, Bengal is the second state in the country, after Bihar, where the webcasting technology is being used for the elections. The technology enables live feeding of recordings of the inside of booths through internet connection. Live recording of voting procedure is thus directly loaded and can be seen by officers at the state election...
More »Poster war against Chhattisgarh Reds by Supriya Sharma
A new anti-Maoist campaign started in Chhattisgarh last week with the appearance of posters and newspaper advertisements targeted against Maoists and their sympathizers. Neither the posters nor the advertisements have any mention of printer, publisher or sponsor. The posters first surfaced in Narayanpur district last Thursday. They featured photos of activists Aruna Roy, Swami Agnivesh and Arundhati Roy carrying a statement condemning the killing of MNREGA activist Niyamat Ansari by Maoists....
More »Tribal tea union ‘recovers’ Adivasi land
The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad today “took back” land that was being used by a Siliguri-based planter as a small tea garden for the past five years, alleging that he had duped the Adivasi owners. The Jalpaiguri administration has termed the “takeover” illegal. “Who gave them the rights or the responsibility of reclaiming tribal land? There is an administration and government procedure for everything. They should have come to us...
More »Endosulfan Ban Highlights Need for Alternatives by Marcela Valente
The upsurge in the use of the toxic pesticide endosulfan, targeted for prohibition by the international community, illustrates one of the dilemmas of intensive agriculture in Argentina and Latin America in general. "There is always a natural solution," insists farmer Alicia Alem, a member of an Argentine cooperative that produces cereal and forage crops without chemical fertilisers or pesticides. "In terms of wheat, for example, the cooperative gets exactly the same yield...
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