-Hindustan Times The workers stage the unique protest against the Centre’s decision to increase their wages from Rs 167 to Rs 168. Ranchi/ Latehar: Several Jharkhand MNREGA workers have returned Rs 1, the amount the Centre has increased in their wages, to PRIme Minister Narendra Modi and state chief minister Raghubar Das to protest the meagre hike. The union government has recently increased the wages for the Jharkhand workers under the Mahatma...
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Central Railways denies 'catering scam', says typos in RTI reply led to miscommunication -Mustafa Shaikh
-India Today Following reports of a catering scam in Central Railways, the department said that the whole case is a mere miscommunication caused by typos in RTI reply. Central Railways on Tuesday issued a clarification on reports of a scam that alleged its catering department had purchased food products at ten times their MRP, saying typing errors in the RTI reply caused the miscommunication. Three inspectors involved in making the RTI reply have...
More »Make sure schools don't sell books or uniform on campus: Delhi HC to CBSE -Mallica Joshi & Manish Raj
-The Indian Express It also asked the board to ensure that a circular issued by it, dated APRIl 19, 2017— directing affiliated school not to indulge in commercial activities like selling of books, uniforms, school bags and stationary — is strictly complied with. THE DELHI High Court Tuesday directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to make sure that schools do not carry out “commercial activities” on campus. It also asked...
More »Pressure to pay loans seen as among reasons for farmer suicides -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Abject poverty, high levels of debt, and crop failures among the leading causes behind farmer suicides, according to a study commissioned by agriculture ministry New Delhi: Abject poverty, high levels of indebtedness, crop failures and pressure to repay loans are among the leading causes behind farmer suicides, according to the preliminary findings of a study commissioned by the Union agriculture ministry. The broad findings of the study conducted by the Institute for...
More »Telangana's tur dal farmers face yet another uncertain season -Ajit Kanitkar
-VillageSquare.in The constant swing in the PRIces of tur dal in Telangana from one year to the next and tardy implementation of the government’s procurement mechanism have made life tough for thousands of subsistence farmers in Kodangal and Husnabad Husnabad and Kodangal are just 110 km from the cyber city of Hyderabad. In the last week of March, it was a beginning of a long dry spell, with temperatures hovering around the...
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