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Premium trains run empty -Vedika Chaubey

-The Hindu Flight tickets are often cheaper than train fares on these services thanks to the flexi fare system Railway Minister Piyush Goyal’s announcement last week that the public transporter was reviewing the scheme of flexi fares introduced in September last year reflects the paradox of a surge in railway revenue even as premium trains run with vacant seats. While Railway revenues have surged by Rs. 500 crore in the one year sINCe the...

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Pesticide inhalation kills 18 Maharashtra farmers, 400 in hospital -Shishir Arya

-The Times of India NAGPUR: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday announced ex-gratia payment of Rs 2 lakh to the next of kin of farmers and labourers who died due to pesticide inhalation while spraying crops in Yavatmal district over the last few weeks. An inquiry has also been ordered into the matter under the assistant chief secretary (home). Eighteen farmers were killed due to inhalation of 'profefonos', a pesticide used on...

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India slammed for slavery, we need to counter: IB to Govt -Jay Mazoomdaar

-The Indian Express It underlined that the US government funded the 2017 report which estimated 40 million slaves in the world, INCluding 25 million in the Asia-Pacific. WARNING that “global documentation on slavery is INCreasingly targeting India as home to the highest number of slaves in the world,” the Intelligence Bureau in a “secret” note has recommended a strong campaign to “discredit” the information and a diplomatic offensive against it. The Bureau submitted...

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SC glare on 'political bonds'

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today sought the response of the Centre and the Election Commission on a joint petition filed by NGOs challenging amendments to the 2016 and 2017 Finance Acts that allegedly allow unfettered donations by corporate houses in India and foreign entities to parties in the name of "political bonds". According to advocates Prashant Bhushan and Neha Rathi, appearing for the NGOs Association of Democratic Reforms and...

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Has the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Brought a Paradigm Shift in Rural Sanitation? -Santosh Mehrotra and Vinod Mishra

-TheWire.in Innovate methods are being used to encourage people to end open defecation, but issues like the underutilisation of funds and use of coercive methods to achieve targets remain. The government has run rural sanitation programmes sINCe the 1980s. Yet, according to Census 2011, only about 30% of all rural households have toilets, and even fewer use those toilets. By contrast, under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, several changes have taken place. Efforts towards...

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