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Hidden in India's Toilet Statistics, the Real Threat of Sexual Violence-Ketki Angre and Sonal Mehrotra

-NDTV   Badaun (Uttar Pradesh): On the night of May 28, two girls, cousins aged 14 and 15 years, stepped out of their house in Katra village, in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district, to relieve themselves. They were allegedly abducted and raped by some men from the same village; their bodies were found hanging from a tree the next day. The route the young girls took that night is a familiar one...

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More Than 263 Lakh Tonne Wheat Procured

-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution   During ongoing Rabi Marketing Season, the Government agencies have procured more than 263 lakh tonnes wheat across the states. As per data available from the fields till 21 May, 2014, total wheat procured during the season is 263, 85,171 tonnes while during the previous season, on the day, it was 246, 60,475 tonnes. So far Punjab has led the procurement...

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Ministry officials want Modi govt to look at land laws-Sanjeeb Mukherjee

-The Business Standard   Agriculture ministry wants review of clamps on holdings; rural development ministry seeks centralisation of records With Narendra Modi set to take over as prime minister in the next few days, the department of agriculture is proposing a comprehensive review of land ceiling laws as a first major reform in the sector.   Land also figures in the to-do list of the rural development ministry. It has proposed centralisation of land records...

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Rs 1,400 MSP for wheat disappoints Maharashtra farmers -Aparna Pallavi

-Down to Earth   Demand minimum support price of above Rs 2,000 per 100 kg; say present MSP does not meet even cost of cultivation Maharashtra government has recently announced the minimum support price for wheat at Rs 1,400 per quintal (100 kg). The decision has not gone down well with either the farmers or the agriculture department. Farmers in the state have questioned the rationale behind this low MSP, saying that such...

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Election results: NOTA garners 1.1% of country’s total vote share -Bharti Jain

-The Times of India   NEW DELHI: The 2G scam-tainted A Raja, DMK candidate from Nilgiris constituency in Tamil Nadu, had to taste humiliation not only at the hands of his AIADMK rival C Gopalakrishnan but also had to put up with a spoiler called NOTA. NOTA, short for none-of-the-above option introduced for the first time in this Lok Sabha election, polled the highest votes in Nilgiris, 46,559 to be precise, beating...

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