-Business Standard Potato seed is selling for Rs 60-70 per kg in the open market this year as compared to Rs 18-22 earlier. Crop area of potato is set to reduce this year due to high rates of seeds Lucknow: With potato rates touching a new high every day, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are finding it difficult to acquire seeds. In the crop season, farmers are forced to buy potato seeds at...
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Dalit Women Face Brunt of Caste Battles, State Neglect -Sadhika Tiwari and Shrinkhala Pandey
-IndiaSpend.com New Delhi, Lucknow, Hathras: Meera Singh, 35, who belongs to an upper-caste Thakur family, was surprised by all the talk of sexual violence in Boolgarhi, her village in Hathras district of western Uttar Pradesh (UP). The alleged gang-rape of a 19-year-old dalit woman by four Thakur men was an abberation, she maintained. “Our village has always been safe, this is the first time that something like this has happened,” said Singh,...
More »Cremation against our wishes, Hathras victim’s family to Allahabad HC -Manish Sahu
-The Indian Express “Her family told the court that the cremation was done by the Hathras district administration against their wishes,” said senior advocate Jaideep Narain Mathur, who was appointed amicus curiae in the case. Lucknow: THE FAMILY members of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died after being assaulted and allegedly gangraped by four upper-caste men in Hathras, told the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday that the district...
More »‘No plot’ to demolish Babri, all acquitted -Piyush Srivastava
-PTI/ The Telegraph Judgment concludes a 28-year-old chapter stemming from one of the darkest incidents in Indian history Lucknow: A special CBI court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 surviving accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case, denying any conspiracy by the assembled BJP and VHP heavyweights and blaming the vandalism on “anti-social elements” who had infiltrated the kar sevaks. The judgment concludes a 28-year-old chapter stemming from one of the darkest incidents in...
More »UP's New Special Security Force Can "Search, Arrest Without Warrant" -Alok Pandey
-NDTV.com In a series of late-night posts, the UP government Twitter handle quoted Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi as saying that "eight battalions of the UPSSF will be constituted initially at a cost of ₹ 1747.06 crore". Lucknow: A special force will be set up in Uttar Pradesh, with powers similar to the CISF (Central Industrial Security Force), that can search and arrest without a warrant, the state government said on...
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