-PTI/ TheWire.in According to the prosecution case, on July 12, 1991, UP Police pulled 10-11 Sikh pilgrims out of a bus, shot them and later called them 'terrorists' to cover up the incident. Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has rejected the bail pleas of 34 former constables of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) accused of killing 10 Sikh men in an alleged fake encounter in 1991. “The gruesome murder of...
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Tribal starvation call for Jharkhand officials -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph NHRC has summoned chief secretary and Garhwa district magistrate-cum-deputy commissioner to personally appear before it on June 29 Jamshedpur: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Jharkhand chief secretary and the Garhwa district magistrate-cum-deputy commissioner to personally appear before it on June 29 over the failure to submit reports relating to tribals starving because of lack of rations. The NHRC order on Tuesday, which followed the hearing of a...
More »People’s ecologist -Ramachandra Guha
-The Telegraph The scientist, Madhav Gadgil, turns 80 this month I come from a family of scientists, but I shied away from studying science myself. Yet, in a happy irony, it turned out that the most important intellectual collaboration of my life was with a scientist, Madhav Gadgil, whose eightieth birthday falls later this month. Born in Pune, Gadgil studied in Bombay, and at Harvard, where he took a PhD in ecology and...
More »Why is your tadka getting more & more expensive? Blame India’s reliance on edible oil imports -Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in Indians spending 14% more on edible oil compared to last year. Experts expect a cooldown if no shocks prevail, government says ‘situation under control’. New Delhi: A bottle of cooking oil is a constant in every Indian kitchen, but its price is not. According to data sourced from the Department of Consumer Affairs, by 16 May, consumers in the country were spending an average of 14 per cent more, or an extra...
More »Project report 'Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20' by Foundation for Agrarian Studies
-Foundation for Agrarian Studies The project report titled “Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20,” has been released in April, 2022. The report has been prepared by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies with the support of Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, New Delhi. In 2021, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies conducted a research project to analyse the trends in public spending on agriculture in India for the most recent decade (2010-11 to...
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