-The Times of India SHILLONG/ JORHAT: At least three people, including a minor, were killed and two women reported missing following a massive Landslide in Meghalaya's Ri-Bhoi district on Saturday morning. "The Landslide occurred inside an industrial area of the Meghalaya Industrial Development Corporation in Umiam," said Ramesh Singh, Ri-Bhoi SP. The disaster was triggered by incessant rain in the region for the past few days. With more people feared trapped under...
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As crimes soar in Uttar Pradesh, is Yogi Adityanath's honeymoon phase over?
-IANS Crimes from murders to rapes to dacoities to caste conflicts and communal tensions Lucknow: Two months is not a long time in politics to fall from grace, especially when a Landslide of public support has propelled you to power. But in Uttar Pradesh, the honeymoon period of the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government seems to have been spiked by a series of incidents of heinous crimes and law and order...
More »Direct transfer, 2 lakh sale points: Big fertiliser subsidy reform rollout in June -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Under the proposed system, payment of subsidy is to be based on weekly settlement of claims from actual sales data captured on POS machines. Buoyed by its Landslide win in the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Narendra Modi government has decided to fast-track the implementation of the direct benefit transfer (DBT) system for payment of fertiliser subsidy to farmers. From the coming kharif season, beginning June, the Rs...
More »India’s First Fully-Organic State Faces Many Challenges to Maintaining its Status -Athar Parvaiz
-Earth Island Journal It’s too early to hail Sikkim’s transition to chemicals-free agriculture an outright success, say observers Sikkim, the picturesque northeastern Indian state in the eastern Himalayas, announced in January that it had transitioned completely to organic agriculture — the first state in the South Asian nation to do so. The process of shifting to organic agriculture was initiated by the state government 13 years ago when it launched the Sikkim Organic...
More »Uttarakhand rains: Death toll rises to 43 -Gaurav Talwar
-The Times of India DEHRADUN: At least 43 people lost their lives and 23 got injured so far in the natural disasters triggered by torrential rainfall in Uttarakhand during this year's monsoon season, which started from June 1. Besides, several heads of animals were also killed in the state since June this year along with considerable damage to property. Since the onset of monsoon season in the state, 27 people have been...
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