-The Times of India CHENNAI: It is an indication of the distress in the agriculture sector in the country. As many as 5,650 farmers, including 68 in Tamil Nadu, committed suicide last year, mainly due to bankruptcy or indebtedness, family problems and crop failure, said the latest report of the national crime records bureau. The premier central agency has correlated the data for the first time, amid outrage over growing incidents...
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16 deaths every hour: Indian roads claim the maximum number of lives in 2014 -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Indian roads were at their deadliest in 2014 claiming more than 16 lives every hour on average. Over 1.41 lakh people died in crashes, 3% more than the number of fatalities in 2013. The numbers of crashes and of people left injured were also the highest levels since the recording of such data started in India—at 4.5 lakh and 4.8 lakh respectively. According to the latest data...
More »Uttar Pradesh, T.N. roads the most unsafe, show NCRB data -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Sixteen Indians died in road accidents every hour in 2014, a quarter of them on two-wheelers, and a majority of them as a result of overspeeding or reckless overtaking, new official data show. Tamil Nadu, and Chennai in particular, have high levels of road fatalities. The National Crime Records Bureau’s Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report for 2014 was released late on Friday. The numbers show a slight increase...
More »What Will It Take to Bring a Second Green Revolution to India? -Bijay Singh
-IPS News LUDHIANA: Long-term agricultural growth in India is slowing down. The lands that saw remarkable increases in productivity in the 1970s and 80s, thanks to the technology rolled out as part of the first “Green Revolution”, are not yielding the same results today. India still has the second highest number of undernourished people in the world. To confront this problem, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a Second Green Revolution on Indian...
More »States can pass own land acquisition laws if Centre can't: Jaitley
-Hindustan Times With the key Land Acquisition bill stalled by political differences with the Opposition, the Centre may change tack and get states to enact their own land legislation, enabling it to push along the economic reform process. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday that the states that wanted speedy development could take the lead in framing such laws with the Centre's backing, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi said “political considerations”...
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