-Hindustan Times Dindori/ Indore: Ujiyaro Bai, a Baiga tribal, who has for years worked for the conservation of forests in MP, has been invited to attend the World Forestry Congress to be held from September 7 to 11 in Durban, South Africa. The XIV World Forestry Congress, hosted by the Republic of South Africa, will bring together the global forestry community to review and analyse the key issues and to share ways...
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Delhi is now India’s rape capital, show NCRB data -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Number of cases proportionate to women population earns it infamy For the first time in history, Delhi is officially the “rape capital” of India. Even while the pace of increase in the number of reported rapes in the city has slowed down, the number of such cases proportionate to its women population was higher than for any other city or State last year. During the past years, Delhi reported a larger...
More »PM Modi to launch Digital India Project in two panchayats
-PTI Indore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially kick off Digital India Week at 4 PM on Wednesday over video conferencing in two village panchayats in Indore. Industry leaders like Cyrus Mistry, Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji, Pawan Munjal, Sunil Mittal, Kumar Manglam Birla and Anil Ambani are expected to be present at the launch. The Digital India Project aims to connect all gram panchayats in India through broadband, promote e-governance and transform...
More »The Importance of Being 'Rurban': Tracking Changes in a Traditional Setting -Dipankar Gupta
-Economic and Political Weekly A categorical distinction is facing rough weather--that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the outside world that comes in not just as external markets but as external inputs. Further, many of our villages barely qualify as rural if we were to take occupation alone. So the earlier line that separated the farmer from the worker in towns is slowly...
More »Tribal farmers on ‘Jal Satyagraha’ in Gogalgaon for compensation -Bagish Jha
-The Times of India Indore: To protest against the increase in height of Omkareshwar dam, tribals farmers of Gogalgoan of Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh are once again on 'Jal Satyagraha' in their filed which have been flooded due to increase in water level of dam. They are in knee deep water carrying placards that called for government to give them land or sufficient compensation. In the year 2012 farmers had organised...
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