-Outlook Yavatmal (Maharashtra): Four farmers allegedly committed suicide in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra yesterday, according to NGOs. The deceased included Vasram Rathod of Bothbodan in Yavatmal district. Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti's Santosh Naitam claimed that all of them were debt-ridden. Rathod was the 24th farmer in Yavatmal district to commit suicide since 2006, according to locals. Village Sarpanch Balasaheb Chavan claimed that Rathod owed over Rs 2 lakh to the lenders, and had a failed...
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India tells rich nations not to treat climate issues for providing market to domestic companies -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India WARSAW: Hitting out at developed countries for backtracking on their commitments to fight climate change, India on Thursday used the UN climate talks platform to tell the rich nations not to treat global warming issues with a "business perspective of providing markets to domestic companies". New Delhi also expressed dismay at decision of some of the rich nations - including Japan, Canada and Australia - to scale down...
More »Bangalore, Chennai top on website’s bribe index, cash paid totals Rs 23 crore -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: If an anti-corruption website ( www.ipaidabribe.com) set up by Bangalore-based NGO Janaagraha is an indicator, Chennai is the second most corrupt city in the country after Bangalore. More than 1,100 Chennaiites posted on the website, which encourages voluntary disclosure of bribe-paying, that they had cumulatively paid more than Rs 7 crore in the last three years to grease the palms of government officers. Most pertain to land...
More »No Anganwadi for homeless-Yoshita Sengupta
-DNA An allocation of Rs 17,700 crore in the 2013-2014 Union Budget but not a single accountable rupee spent for pre-school education or a plate of food for the homeless children in Mumbai. Yoshita Sengupta investigates the absence of homeless children from ICDS registers Mumbai: In 2010, Ms. Rekha, a homeless woman living on the footpath in Mumbai in her last month of pregnancy, slipped while trying to cross a wall. She...
More »Every second Indian child is malnourished: Report -Shreya Bhandary
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Every second child in India is malnourished; 79% children across the country are anaemic; and the child sex ratio is at the lowest ever with 914 girls for every 1000 boys. These are some of the findings in a report, released by Child Rights and You (CRY), that dwells on the abysmal state of children in the country. According to the report, the national dropout rate at...
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