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Tripura to get PDS rice via Bangladesh by Samudra Gupta Kashyap

-The Indian Express Exactly a month after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit, her government has allowed transportation of PDS rice to Tripura through her country. The Bangladesh government has approved the use of Ashuganj port as well as the Ashuganj-Agartala road across the international border to transport the first consignment of 5,000 tonnes of rice in the next couple of weeks, which will save Food Corporation of India (FCI) a circuitous...

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Distress and death by Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

West Bengal: An agrarian crisis looms over the State as farmers commit suicide in spite of a bumper crop. THE topic of suicide figured repeatedly in Safar Molla's conversations with his neighbours a few days before his death. The 18-year-old marginal farmer from Kaltikuri village in Bardhaman district's Bhatar block talked about it quite casually, in fact even jocularly. Everybody in the village knew he was up to his neck in...

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Tamil Nadu seeks exemption from Food Security Bill

-The Hindu   Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday expressed her “strong opposition” to the draft Food Security Bill, 2011 and urged the Centre to exempt Tamil Nadu from the purview of the Bill. In her letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said the proposed Bill was replete with “confusion and inaccuracy.” The proposed classification of target groups into priority household (PHH) and general household (GHH) for delivery of food entitlements would surely invite...

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State Information Commissioner's statement shocks RTI activists by Mohamed Imranullah S

He says the Commission can only order supply of information A statement made by State Information Commissioner T. Srinivasan on October 21 that the Commission has no jurisdiction to inquire into allegations levelled against public information officers (PIO) for having provided misleading or false information, has come as a rude shock to RTI (Right to Information Act, 2005) activists here. The commissioner had made the statement while disposing of an RTI application...

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I'd rather not be Anna by Arundhati Roy

While his means maybe Gandhian, his demands are certainly not. If what we're watching on TV is indeed a revolution, then it has to be one of the more embarrassing and unintelligible ones of recent times. For now, whatever questions you may have about the Jan Lokpal Bill, here are the answers you're likely to get: tick the box — (a) Vande Mataram (b) Bharat Mata ki Jai (c) India is...

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