-The Financial Express As onion prices surge on the removal of curbs on minimum export price (MEP), Lasalgaon Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) – the largest wholesale market for onions in Asia – is all set to be part of the World Bank-implemented Maharashtra Agricultural Competitiveness Project (MACP). The APMC will receive funds to the tune of Rs 1 crore as part of the project to bring the entire auction process...
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Pesticide used by Maharashtra victims banned in Punjab -Shishir Arya
-The Times of India NAGPUR (Maharashtra): Even as the issue of pesticide inhalation deaths dog Maharashtra government, Punjab has come up with a ban on monocrotophos as well as 19 other pesticides. As a state can impose ban on a pesticide for not more than 60 days, in Punjab orders to stop issuing fresh licences as well as renewal have been issued. Accidental inhalation of pesticides led to 52 deaths in Vidarbha...
More »111 killed in communal INCidents last year: Minister
-The Hindu As many as 111 people were killed and 2,384 others were injured in 822 communal INCidents in 2017, up from 751 such INCidents in 2016, Union Minister Hansraj Ahir said on Tuesday. The highest number of communal INCidents, as many as 195, was reported from Uttar Pradesh where 44 people were killed. Karnataka has seen 100 communal INCidents in which nine were killed while there were 91 INCidents of riots in...
More »Communal INCidents rose 17% last year from 2016 -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Communal INCidents across the country rose to 822 last year from 703 in 2016, reversing the falling trend seen in the preceding year. As many as 111 persons were killed and 2,384 injured due to communal violence in 2017, up from 86 killed and 2,321 injured in 2016. In 2016, communal INCidents were down from the levels seen in 2015 (751). The death toll in 2017...
More »Don't believe the BJP and Congress claims that they're cleaning up poll funding -Milan Vaishnav
-ThePrint.in The larger lesson is clear: in an era when the Congress & the BJP can agree on next to nothing, they will gladly join hands to save their own skin. Among all the talk of the aam aadmi focus emerging from last week’s Budget, many people may have missed one of its most self-serving acts. This manoeuvre found no mention in the Union Finance Minister’s presentation itself, but was instead buried...
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