-The Hindu Rural newspaper Gaon Connection, recently launched in Uttar Pradesh, seeks to project the hinterland as it really is For long the national media has been accused of shutting its door on rural news. And by now, the largely city-centric media has won the argument too that news about villages and small towns just do not bring them the advertisers. So we are in an age when the ‘business of media’...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 141
Parliamentary Standing Committee likely to submit its report on Food Security Bill during the winter session -Rituraj Tiwari
-The Economic Times The parliamentary standing committee on food is giving a final shape to the UPA-II government's ambitious Food Security Bill. It is likely to submit its report during this session which is likely to end on December 21. Committee chairman Vilas Muttemwar summoned senior food ministry officials on Monday to study the availability of grains and the ministry's readiness to roll out the project. The government, however, is likely to present...
More »Akhilesh waives Rs 1,650 crore farm loans on dad Mulayam's birthday
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: A cash-strapped Uttar Pradesh government wrote off loans worth Rs 1,650 crore to farmers on Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's 74th birthday on Thursday, fulfilling an election promise that is bound to further deplete the state's already dwindling coffers. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said 7.2 lakh farmers, who've taken loans of up to Rs 50,000 from rural cooperative banks, will benefit from the waiver. "Farmers who've...
More »Akhilesh Yadav government waives loans of lakhs of farmers -Ashish Mukherjee
-NDTV Lucknow: Lakhs of farmers in Uttar Pradesh who took loans worth Rs. 50,000 or more and have returned 10 per cent of the amount got a big surprise today, with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav waiving their loans. The state government said the decision will benefit approximately 7.20 lakh farmers. But the scheme but comes with a rider. It will apply to only those farmers who took the loan by mortgaging property. Such...
More »“Faizabad violence was well-planned and targets had been selected” -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu Sequence of attacks on “well-known business units” suggests violence was not spontaneous Last week’s violence in Faizabad district during the Durga Puja procession which left two persons dead, several injured and dozens of shops razed, was executed in a planned manner and the targets had been selected, according to a fact-finding team and accounts by victims and eyewitnesses. The fact-finding team of human rights organisation Rihai Manch said the sequence of...
More »
