-DailyMail.co.uk Your friendly neighbourhood NGO worker may have been crying themselves hoarse for years over social ills, but there is a high chance that the organisation he or she represents lacks financial transparency. Nearly 25 lakh NGOs across the country, most of whom receive funds worth crores of rupees from the government and abroad, came under the Supreme Court's scrutiny on Monday after the CBI submitted that only 10 per cent of...
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BMS attacks Centre for coal ordinance -Indrani Dutta & Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Says the government is resorting to falsehood to rule country Kolkata / New Delhi: The BMS was among the central unions that led 3.6-lakh workers of Coal India Ltd. (CIL) on a five-day strike beginning Tuesday. Earlier in November, the BMS stayed away from a strike called on November 24 by other central trade unions to oppose the coal ordinance. "Four months ago, we had asked Coal Minister Piyush Goyal to...
More »More girls being born, but fewer surviving -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India There is good news and bad news on one of the key problems that haunts India - survival of the girl child. Sex ratio at birth, that is, the number of girls born for every 1000 boys born, has inched up from 906 to 909 between 2007 and 2013. This suggests that female feticide, the monstrous practice of killing off the girl baby in the mothers' womb...
More »Centre weighs in with record urea supply to curb black-marketing -Pratim Ranjan Bose
-The Hindu Business Line But manufacturers want subsidy regime to end in order to improve production Kolkata: To curb black-marketing in urea, the Centre in December released a "record" 3.7 million tonnes (mt) into the market, by stepping up imports. The usual monthly requirement of the fertiliser, whose supply is regulated, is 2.5-3 mt. The demand for urea peaks towards end December and early January. India produces approximately 22 mt of urea against the...
More »Girls in Gujarat record highest incidences of ‘sexual abuse’ -Avinash Nair
-The Indian Express More girls in Prime Minister Narendra Modi home state Gujarat seem to be reporting ‘sexual abuse' than anywhere else in the country. According to a recent status report published by an NGO - Save the Children - over 63 percent girls in Gujarat have reported sexual abuse which is highest in the country. Madhya Pradesh (57%) and West Bengal (56%) stand second and third respectively in the report titled,...
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