Nearly 166 jawans of the Indian Reserve Battalion rebelled in Jangalmahal on Wednesday, alleging they were being made to work in inhuman conditions and are getting no help from the police in high-risk operations. The flashpoint of the rebellion was in Silda, where Maoists had massacred 24 EFR jawans in February 2010. Three other critically located IRB camps - Salboni, Barikul and Ranibandh - are affected. As news of the revolt...
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Playing with numbers, and lives by Brinda Karat
The Planning Commission, headed by the prime minister, has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court quantifying the daily poverty line for an adult as Rs 26 in rural, and Rs 32 in urban India. At today’s relentlessly increasing prices, Rs 26 will not get a manual worker even one nutritious meal a day — leave alone the 2,400 calories he is required to eat to enable him to work,...
More »Medha Patkar disputes Jayalalithaa's stand on Kudankulam issue
-The Hindu Duty of Centre, State to respond to fears over Kudankulam plant Rejecting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's remarks blaming the Centre for failing to convince the people about the safety of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, social activist Medha Patkar on Monday said it was the collective responsibility of both the Central and State governments to respond to the genuine apprehensions of the local community living close to the upcoming...
More »Poverty and food insecurity rise in the US by Chris Arsenault
More than 2.5 million Americans fell into poverty last year, bringing the total number to its highest in 52 years. After touring food banks across Tennessee, Marcia Wells was not surprised by the latest statistics showing that more Americans are living in poverty today than at any time since the Census Bureau began first publishing the number 52 years ago. In the US, 2.6 million people fell into poverty last year, the...
More »Rs5 lakh reward for information on slain RTI activist Shehla Masood
-PTI The CBI today announced a cash reward of Rs5 lakh for providing information about the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, who was shot dead outside her house in Bhopal last month. On September 3, a case was registered against unnamed persons by the Bhopal unit of the agency, CBI sources said here. Shehla was shot dead when she was going towards her car outside her residence in posh Koh-e-Fiza locality in...
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