-IANS New Delhi: Press freedom in India has deteriorated in 2018 and three journalists have been killed in the first four months, media watchdog The Hoot said, stating that "journalists continue to be vulnerable". The number of killings documented by the Hoot report for the first four months was the same as in the whole of 2017. "They were killed in connection with their reporting, judging by what initial investigations show," it said. India...
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A pattern of impunity: on the SC/ST Act -G Sampath
-The Hindu The problem with the SC/ST Act is the failure of the criminal justice system to recognise its own casteist biases For India’s Dalits and Adivasis, May 1 this year was a ‘May Day’ in more ways than one. It was May Day, the day to commemorate the labour movement (the vast majority of them do belong to the working classes), and also ‘mayday’ in the maritime sense, an occasion to...
More »The storm brewing in India's cotton fields -Jaideep Hardikar
-RuralIndiaOnline.org Bt-cotton occupies 90 per cent of the land under cotton in India – and the pests that this GM variety was meant to safeguard against, are back, virulently and now pesticide-resistant – destroying crops and farmers The black scars dotting the green bolls of a wilting cotton plant on Ganesh Wadandre’s farm carried a message for scientists working on the ‘white gold’: go find a new antidote. “Those are the entry points,”...
More »Government expands minority development plan to 308 districts from 196
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The BJP-led central government is expanding the reach of a scheme to improve socio-economic infrastructure for minorities in education, health and skill development from 196 to 308 districts of the country. From 27 states and UTs, the programme, which was last year allocated Rs 3,972 crore to be spent over three years, will now be implemented in districts across 32 states and UTs. “Between 33% and...
More »Agri plan with Rs 33,000cr outlay to go on for 2 yrs
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In its effort to double farmers’ income by 2022, the government on Wednesday approved continuation of the agri umbrella scheme—‘Green Revolution - Krishonnati Yojana’—with a central outlay of over Rs 33,269 crore till March 31, 2020. The programme was launched last year after clubbing the existing 11 different schemes for better implementation and monitoring. The 11 schemes, focussing on creating/strengthening of infrastructure of production, reducing...
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