-The Hindu Manoharpur (Jharkhand): Deep inside the Saranda sal forest, Thalkobad lies at the core of what was a CPI (Maoist) "liberated zone" in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district along the Odisha border. Thalkobad, along with 24 other villages, was reclaimed by the Indian state after a massive military operation - Operation Anaconda-I in August 2011 to destroy the CPI (Maoist) Eastern Regional Bureau and several training camps inside Saranda. The village...
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A case of misplaced euphoria -Vani S Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu In spite of the rosy picture painted by the World Bank, the prospect of eliminating extreme poverty remains distant In a protracted period of gloom and persistent recession with feeble signs of recovery in a large part of the developed world, the World Bank, Brookings Institution and others can be forgiven for their euphoria over the accomplishment of a key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) - of halving extreme poverty in...
More »Proposal on ‘joni bella’ awaits government’s nod-N Dinesh Nayak
-The Hindu UAS-Dharwad submitted the proposal three years ago DHARWAD: Sugarcane growers in the Sirsi-Yellapur belt are eager to know if the Congress government will approve a scheme that aims to conserve and promote ‘joni bella' - a special variety of jaggery. It has been three years since the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, sent a Rs. 1 crore proposal in this regard, which, if implemented, promises to boost the agrarian economy in...
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-The Hindu Aruna Roy's decision to terminate her relationship with the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has returned the spotlight to the ideological divide within the ruling establishment on welfare spending. As the civil rights activist noted in her letter to the Congress president, the rupture came over the Manmohan Singh government's refusal to pay statutory minimum wages to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act -...
More »In Haryana, Gurgaon tops literacy rate but has worst sex ratio -Varinder Bhatia
-The Indian Express Chandigarh: The 2011 Census has brought both good and bad news for Gurgaon. The fast developing city, according to census figures, has the highest literacy rate and the worst sex ratio in the state. The data shows that Gurgaon has a literacy rate of 84.7 per cent, followed by Panchkula at 81.9 per cent and Ambala at 81.7 per cent, but the sex ratio remains a dismal 854 women...
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