-PTI More BSF personnel have died of cardiac arrest and other illness than in action on the borders and anti-Naxal operations in the past two years, according to official data. The data revealed that only 25 of total 774 deaths in the period between January 2015 and September 2016 were battle casualties. It showed that while a total of 25 personnel were killed in action, 316 died due to a variety of...
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There is a human cost of development projects, says new report
The term 'development' holds a positive connotation for most policymakers. However, there are examples abound, which indicates that development also cause enormous misery to the people, particularly the poor and the marginalized. Take for instance, the organizing of 2010 Commonwealth Games, due to which massive infrastructural development in the national capital was undertaken when Sheila Dikshit was the Chief Minister of Delhi. It has been estimated that almost 2 lakh...
More »Less than a third of ATMs operational in Kerala -Vinson Kurian
-The Hindu Business Line THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As much as 70 per cent of the ATMs in Kerala remain shut, or partially so, at the end of the second week after the Prime Minister announced demonetisation of high-value notes. The state has close to 9,000 ATMs in all, but shortage of adequate notes in the new series as also those of lower denomination has forced at least a third to down shutters, more so...
More »Banning notes will not curb black money, says think tank that called for demonetisation -Shailesh Menon
-The Economic Times Until a couple of weeks ago, few had heard about Anil Bokil or the socioeconomic thinktank he founded, the Arthakranti Pratishthan. On the street, he would not even have invited a fleeting glance. This changed after the evening of November 8, when Prime Minister Modi announced his plans to “demonetise” Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. Arthakranti Pratishthan has been credited with sowing the seeds of “demonetisation” in the...
More »People in remote villages suffer the most -Kavita Upadhyay
-The Hindu Gopal Singh of Lamdegadh hamlet, which crowns a hill of Chamoli district near the Kumaon-Garhwal border, has to walk 8 km to reach the nearest motorable Road. Chamoli (Uttarakhand): In sleepy Uttarakhand villages, tucked away inside lush green forests far from motorable Roads, there has been a sudden burst of activity for a few days now as people rush out of their houses in the early hours each day, hoping...
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