-Down to Earth Seizures of ivory, skins and bones of wildlife species represent only those cases which come to light The Supreme Court order, which has set aside the suspension of conviction of Salman Khan in the blackbuck shooting case, once again brings into focus the high rate of wildlife crimes in India. The scale of the crimes in the country can be gauged from some of the information put out by the...
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Centre not serious about child rights, apex court says -Amit Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Expressing deep concern over the failure of government to put in place a proper mechanism to trace missing children, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sought assistance of premier institutes - FMS of Delhi University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai-to find thousands of children who go missing every year. The court also asked National Police Academy (NPA), Hyderabad to evolve a training module for police...
More »Idukki becomes first district in India to get high-speed rural broadband connectivity -M Suchitra
-Down to Earth National Optic Fibre Network will connect all 250,000 gram panchayats of India by 2016 India's first high-speed rural broadband network, the National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN), was commissioned in Kerala's Idukki district on Monday. With this, the district, which has a large tribal and rural population, has become the country's first district to have all its village panchayats connected to NOFN, the world's largest rural broadband connectivity project through...
More »Internal NREGA note blames Nitin Gadkari, then does a rewrite -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The Ministry of Rural Development seems undecided on whether to blame former Minister Nitin Gadkari or the media for some of the problems with the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). An internal note of the Ministry - prepared ahead of a Performance Review Committee meeting this month - blamed Gadkari for contributing to delays in the payment of wages under the scheme. Soon after...
More »Journalist P Sainath talks to Newslaundry on his recent venture PARI
-Newslaundry.com Journalist P Sainath talks about his new online media venture - People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), and putting the focus back on rural India (website: www.ruralindiaonline.org) Please click here to read more and access the entire interview. ...
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