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Tea garden workers’ daily wage hiked -Umanand Jaiswal

-The Telegraph Assam govt raises rate for second time in 15 months Guwahati: The daily wage of tea garden workers in Assam was increased by Rs 27 on Wednesday, the second hike in 15 months. The hike, which will take effect retrospectively from August 1, will see tea garden workers in Brahmaputra Valley get Rs 232 a day, up from Rs 205 a day. Garden workers from Barak Valley will see their daily...

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Trouble in the Rice Bowl of Bengal -Gurvinder Singh

-GaonConnection West Bengal is India's top paddy growing state. Bardhaman region in the state, which is known as the rice bowl of Bengal, has received minus 47% deficient rainfall leading to a drastic reduction in paddy sowing. A Gaon Connection ground report as part of its Paddy Pain series. Kalyanpur (East Bardhaman), West Bengal: Dinonath Ghosh, a farmer for more than four decades believes that this must be the worst paddy farming...

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Audit lays bare numerous breach of India’s coastal regulations -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph Jail and racetrack on beach bully list New Delhi: An audit has identified dozens of public and private projects that have breached India’s coastal regulations — beach resorts, ports, roads, a racetrack, and even a jail near an Olive Ridley turtle nesting site. The exercise by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has flagged deficiencies in the Union environment ministry’s project approval mechanisms and lapses by state coastal regulatory authorities that...

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Verification Drive or Raid? Rohingya in Haryana Accuse Cops of Harassment and Brutality -Astha Savyasachi

-TheWire.in Though the police superintendent claims his officers were 'sensitised' before arriving at the refugee camps on July 26, residents tell a different tale. Nuh (Haryana): Before the break of dawn on July 26, 10 police jeeps and six police buses encircled the 10 Rohingya refugee camps in the Nuh district of Haryana. More than 600 policemen walked into the camps and allegedly barged into each jhuggi, pushing people out of their...

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Lower kharif plantings due to uneven rains a growing concern, says report -Suchet Vir Singh

-ThePrint.in Area under rice and pulses lower than last year, while oilseeds acreage has marginally increased in the June-October Kharif crop season. New Delhi: The South-West monsoon has seen 6 per cent above normal or long-period average (LPA) rains in India till 5 August this year, but geographical disparities have impacted planting of Kharif crops including rice, according to a new report from the Bank of Baroda. Area planted under cereals including rice...

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