-Caravandaily.com Petitioner PUCL has also sought compensation to victims’ families. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh Government to file a detailed report on the police shootouts in which more than 50 people have been killed in the last one year. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra has sought response in two weeks from the Uttar Pradesh Government of Yogi Adityanath on a petition of...
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Over-cultivation of water-guzzling rice crop threatens to deplete state's groundwater reserves -Arjun Sharma
-Firstpost.com Chandigarh: Two years ago, Charan Singh's tubewell ran dry just before the paddy-sowing season could start. The rice farmer, who cultivates four acres of land in the Mansa district of Punjab, had been pumping water from 45 feet below the surface. Now he had to dig another, deeper well. Like Charan Singh, 36, thousands of farmers across Punjab are astonished at the speed at which groundwater, their principal source of water...
More »Farm support prices come with hidden costs -Ashima Goyal
-The Hindu Business Line In view of the distortions arising out of excessive price support, direct income transfers to farmers is a better option The domestic debate has tended to conclude that the rise in MSP announced in the Budget is an essential part of achieving the Government’s objective of doubling farm incomes. But MSP stands for minimum support prices and is an instrument designed for reducing income volatility, not for raising...
More »UP's Musahars face such intense discrimination that even healthcare is denied to them -Tarun Kanti Bose
-Scroll.in Untouchability was outlawed in 1950, but discrimination and segregation of the scheduled caste remains pervasive. Musahars, a Scheduled Caste that sections of Hindu society deem untouchable, are still being denied Government entitlements such as state pensions and housing. The discrimination is blatant when it comes to accessing Government healthcare in Badagaon administrative block of Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous province. The scourge of discrimination is so pervasive that...
More »India's forex reserves are falling $2 billion per week as RBI fights to save sliding rupee -Mahua Venkatesh
-ThePrint.in The dip in forex reserves has been due to the intervention of the central bank to arrest the slide in the rupee. New Delhi: India’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen by about $2 billion per week for seven weeks now but top Government officials said they were monitoring the trend and there is no cause for alarm. Economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said funds would be raised through foreign currency non-repatriable...
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