-The Hindu While there is reason to be proud of the progress in the production of wheat, rice, cereals and millets, the use of farmland for non-farm purposes is a cause for concern The year 2013 marks the 70th anniversary of the Bengal Famine which resulted in the death of an estimated 1.5 to 3 million children, women and men during 1942-43. A constellation of factors led to this mega-tragedy, such as...
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No Need for Probe Against Kurien: Experts to Kerala Govt
-Outlook Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government has received legal opinion that there was no need to order a re-investigation against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien in the Suryanelli gangrape case. The victim in the case was only repeating the charge which she earlier raised and there was nothing in her new revelation that warranted a re-investigation against Kurien, the legal opinion report submitted by the State Public Prosecutor said, official sources said. There...
More »BPL card more important than brain scan for injured baby
-The Telegraph A baby girl in need of a brain scan has been turned away by every government hospital she has visited in six months because her unemployed single mother doesn't have a BPL card or the money for an MRI. Jhuma Majhi's daughter Brishti, a year and nine months old, was recommended an MRI of the brain last August after falling off a bed and suffering convulsions that have since become...
More »Centre asks states to start women-only buses
-The Times of India The Centre has asked state governments to start exclusive buses for women in million-plus cities as part of initiatives being taken to tackle the rise of sexual crimes against women. The measure was suggested at a meeting of the committee of secretaries headed by the cabinet secretary on January 23. The Union urban development ministry issued a circular on Thursday asking states to provide detailed action plan in...
More »Don’t join retail queue but cut diesel taxes, Moily tells States-Sujay Mehdudia
-The Hindu OMCs will revise price every month until losses are wiped out The Centre is seized of some State governments’ directive to their Transport undertakings (STU) to line up at retail outlets for refuelling following the removal of subsidy for bulk consumers of diesel, Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Friday. Talking to reporters here, Mr. Moily said he had heard that States such as Gujarat and Tamil Nadu had asked...
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