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Demolitions, Evictions and Toilets for Show: How Indore Won Swachh Bharat's Top Rank -Sukanya Shantha

-TheWire.in In an attempt to make the city ‘open defecation free’, families who had paid for toilets and were midway through construction allege that their houses were destroyed before surveyors came around. Indore: In November last year, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) officials moved around in the city in twos or threes to ensure that every household without a personal toilet was enumerated. Nanjubai’s house was one among 40 – all belonging to...

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Rain pounds Mumbai to standstill; no relief in sight -Gautam S Mengle

-The Hindu Suburban train services on all three lines suspended, to be resumed in phases Mumbai: Heavy and incessant rain in Mumbai, which began in the early hours of Tuesday and continued unabated throughout the day, brought the city to a virtual standstill, with lakhs of people stranded across the city as transport systems collapsed. According to the India Meteorological Department, the city had recorded 297 mm of rain. The BMC, the Mumbai...

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Ahead of Yogi Adityanath's visit Gorakhpur hospital gets a makeover -Amarnath Tewary

-The Hindu Police personnel were deployed inside the wards to regulate relatives of patients and visitors. Gorakhpur (U.P.): In 24 hours the Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital at Gorakhpur underwent a makeover, ahead of the visit of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, along with Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda. Police personnel deployed inside the sprawling campus of the hospital on Saturday were stationed even inside the wards on Sunday to regulate relatives of...

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Police raj cry at hospital -Piyush Srivastava

-The Telegraph Lucknow: Parents of some of the 30 children who died over the past two days at a Gorakhpur medical college have alleged that as soon as the oxygen supply stopped and the deaths began, police were sent in to throw them out and pre-empt protests. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his government continued to insist today that the halted oxygen supply did not cause the deaths but at least one...

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Prof. Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, interviewed by Anuradha Raman (The Hindu)

-The Hindu The political scientist on the danger to India’s checks and balances, and the perils of the democratisation of mediocrity in universities Professor of political science and a holder of the Madan Lal Sobti Chair, Devesh Kapur has been director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary India at University of Pennsylvania since 2006. Mr. Kapur, who recently co-edited Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design, says our public universities...

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