-The Times of India BENGALURU: From growing divorce cases of parents to dysfunctional families to a changing atmosphere in schools and colleges, children aged below 18 in India are INCreasingly finding it difficult to cope with situations and are straying, reveals an analysis of the latest crime statistics. Raising questions on the belief that children without parents and those living on the streets are more prone to committing crimes, data from the...
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Odisha seeks release of Rs 676.57 crore for MGNREGA wages
-IANS Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday requested the Centre to release Rs 676.57 crore to pay the wages under the MGNREGA scheme till December 2017. In a letter to Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, the Chief Minister sought his intervention for the release of the funds. Patnaik said the Centre was supposed to release Rs 2,290.19 crore to the state by December-end but it had released only Rs...
More »30 lakh fake 'beti bachao' forms flood women and child development ministry -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The ministry of women and child development is grappling with a fraud being perpetuated on the poor on a very large scale: people are selling them fake "application forms" for the Centre's flagship "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" scheme — the ministry has received nearly 30 lakh fake forms this year — on the promise that just filling the forms will make them eligible for a...
More »Living with the elephants -Shamik Bag
-Livemint.com The tribal belt of south Bengal has become ground zero of a grim battle with an ever-INCreasing population of visiting elephants The elephants are here,” Jiten Singh declares without any show of emotion as we arrive at Tapoban (Madhyapara) village. About 65km from Kharagpur town, Tapoban is a tribal hamlet deep within the vast forested terrain known as Jangalmahal, in West Bengal. It is nearing dusk. Ordinarily, the village would be...
More »Three googlies make India's crime statistics deceptive -Atul Thakur
-The Times of India Here's a safe bet to make: the crime rate in India's big cities will fall in 2021. Every year, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) presents data for the number of crime INCidents in Indian cities. The bureau also provides crime rates, which is the number of crime INCidents per lakh of population. Giving the rate is a good idea because it allows us to compare cities with...
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