-The Hindu The West Bengal government got a major relief on Friday when the Supreme Court extended the interim order of suspension of the Calcutta High Court judgment that struck down the law intended to reclaim Singur land leased out to the Tatas and to give a part of it back to farmers who were yet to receive compensation for it. The High Court, while delivering judgment on June 22, suspended the...
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115 Talukas in Maharashtra Declared Drought-Hit
-PTI As many as 115 talukas in Maharashtra have been declared as drought-hit in the first phase by the state government for deficient rains and crop sowing. relief and rehabilitation Minister Patangrao Kadam told reporters that talukas from among the 149 perennially drought-prone areas under the Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP) have also been included. "We declare drought if the rainfall is less than 50 per cent and sowing is less than 50...
More »Assam ethnic violence spreads to new districts-Prabin Kalita
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: The ethnic violence between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims, which sparked off in Kokrajhar on July 20 and soon affected neighbouring Chirang and Dhubri districts, has spread to new areas with fresh incidents of violence being reported from Baksa, Nalbari and Kamrup (rural) in the past 12 hours. There was no report of any loss of life. On Wednesday midnight, after miscreants set a Tata Nano car on...
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-The Telegraph Guwahati/ Kokrajhar/ Dhubri: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi today announced a judicial inquiry into the riots that began in Kokrajhar on July 20, leaving 77 dead and over four lakh displaced. The judicial probe will be over and above the inquiry to be conducted by the CBI, which has taken over seven cases on their own, Gogoi added. He, however, did not announce details of who will conduct the probe or its...
More »Grapes of theft in villages without water to drink-Jaideep Hardikar
-The Telegraph In the desert-like barrenness of brown around him, Suresh Mangsuli is growing grapes. As the rest of his drought-hit village thirsts for drinking water, he splashes his three acres of vines with over 10,000 litres a day. His huge farm pond is brimming, insured against seepage by a black polythene sheet stretched across its floor. Its water is pumped out to irrigate the vineyard through a network of drip pipes. Growing grapes...
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