-Down to Earth As allegedly Fake pesticides prove ineffective in controlling pests, farmers resort to indiscriminate spraying After a series of farmer suicides in Odisha’s Bargarh district over pest attack, the state government finally acknowledged that there are nearly 200,000 hectares of area, on which paddy is grown, has been damaged across nine districts. According to farmers, spurious pesticides were in use which proved ineffective to control Brown Plant Hopper, which first...

-DNA It was found during online registration for loan waiver implementation. The Maharashtra government's attempt of online registration for loan waiver implementation has sent the authorities into a tizzy as names over 100 farmers have been found linked to a single Aadhaar number. The state government had earlier stressed on online registration by farmers with their Aadhaar, which is a unique identification. The government has said that the Aadhaar-based linking will avoid...

-India Today Private schools in Madhya Pradesh have siphoned off about Rs 600 crore under Right to Education since 2011 by providing Fake data of students enrolled under the programme. Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A man, who was born two years before Independence, has been shown as a student of class-II in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani. He is enrolled in a private school as beneficiary from an under-privileged family entitled to get benefits under...

-The Indian Express The move came about, the letter mentions, during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on August 25, 2017, where it was found that proof of pending recommendations being implemented was present only on paper. Mumbai: The Union Home Ministry has written to police forces across the country to assess their efforts to encourage citizens to move to cashless transactions and curb Fake currency and...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: An NGO has described an alleged Fake encounter and accused Haryana police of a spurt in extra-judicial killings of Muslim youths in the Nuh and Faridabad districts. Citizens Against Hate has made the allegation in a recently published fact-finding report titled "Lynching Without End", which mainly looks at vigilante violence against minorities. The report cites 11 alleged Fake encounters, involving 15 deaths, in Nuh alone, according to a statement...