-The Telegraph Lucknow: Rain related incidents have killed 49 people in Uttar Pradesh since Thursday, with Saharanpur accounting for 11 deaths, as monsoon rains led to house collapses and flooded larges areas, a spokesperson of the Relief Commissioner's Office said here. Rains also damaged an outer boundary wall of the 16th century Fatehpur Sikri fort, west of Agra. However, there was no damage to the main monument, a government spokesman said. While...
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How a Good Yield of Crop became a Problem of Plenty for the Potato Farmers
-Newsclick.in Farmers all over the potato belt are dumping their produces out on the roads, as the Yogi government continues to ignore their plight. Shamsher Singh, a farmer from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, is a worried man. He produced 100 sacks of potatoes this season but could sell only fifty of them that too at the rate below his investment in the produce, in a desperate hope to get some money back in...
More »UP: Two labourers refuse to give bribe of Rs 100, policemen allegedly beat them to death
-ANI “We are probing and registering an FIR, action will be taken against the culprits. We will also suspend the accused police officials,” Superintendent of Police told reporters. Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh): Two labourers in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district were allegedly beaten to death by policemen after they refused to pay a bribe of Rs 100 on Saturday morning. According to one of the five labourers, the police officials on a daily basis...
More »UP will implement Food Security Act from Today
-IANS The complete implementation of the act will only happen by April Lucknow: The Food Security Act is set to be implemented across Uttar Pradesh from Tuesday, an official said. Once the act comes into effect, poor families will get wheat at Rs 2 and rice at Rs 3 per kg. Until now, only families under the Antyodaya scheme were being benefited and the families above and below the poverty line (APL and BPL)...
More »When hunger doesn’t go on vacation -Ishita Mishra
-The Times of India AGRA: The Uttar Pradesh mid-day meal authority's decision to extend the vital service to students of 58 drought-hit districts even during the summer vacation has hit an unlikely roadblock: teachers. This in essence jeopardizes the well-being of lakhs of school-going children in districts declared 'drought-hit' in 2014. Many of these regions also bore the brunt of unseasonal rains in March, sparking a spate of suicides. The opposition, if...
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