-Deccan Chronicle On August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, a financial inclusion scheme that will ensure that at least one member of each and every family in India not only has a bank account with a debit card, but is also provided an overdraft facility of Rs 5,000, a life insurance policy of Rs 30,000 and accident insurance cover of Rs 1,00,000. On August...
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Jharkhand haats, melas hotbeds of traffickers -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India RANCHI: Wading past the surging devotees, Poonam Devi makes a desperate bid to reach a man walking a few metres ahead of her. Her struggle ends in vain as he disappears in the crowd out to witness the "rath yatra" that attracts thousands to the Jagannath temple every year in June-July. Tired and breathless, she stops to explain that he is the man who took her 14-year-old...
More »Four of every 10 Asians living with HIV are Indian: Report
-Reuters India has the third-highest number of people living with HIV in the world, with 2.1 million Indians accounting for four of every 10 people infected in Asia, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday. The epidemic has killed about 39 million of the 78 million people it has affected worldwide since it began in the 1980s, the UN AIDS programme said, adding that the number of people infected...
More »Contractors cut off hands of labourers, leave SC livid -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: "Is there andhergardi (lawlessness) in this country," an angry Supreme Court asked after being told by the Naveen Patnaik government that unlicensed labour contractors chopped off the palms of two migrant labourers' after the tribal men they had herded for contract labour in brick kilns managed to flee. Counsel Jayshree Satpute and R S Jena narrated the unending exploitation of tribal men in six districts of...
More »Building collapses kill seven people in India daily, NCRB data show -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: An average of seven people die in building collapses in the country every day, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics. More than 20 people were killed in two different building collapses in New Delhi and Chennai on Saturday. In 2012, a total of 2,682 people died and 850 people were injured in 2,764 accident cases across the country, according to the NCRB data. Uttar Pradesh recorded the...
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