-Newsclick.in The union alleged that despite the BJP’s election manifesto in 2017 promising to improve their work conditions and increasing remuneration for Anganwadi workers within 120 days, nothing of the sort has happened. Lucknow: Accusing the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government of misleading Anganwadi workers, the Anganwadi Karamchari Union in the state has threatened a state-wide protest if the state government fails to increase the allowance of the workers soon. It was...

-Hindustan Times Those still in custody in the case include Anand Teltumbde, Hany Babu, Shoma Sen, Jyoti Jagtap, Ramesh Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe, Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut, Arun Ferreira, Surendra Gadling, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Rona Wilson, and Vernon Gonsalves Over 100 academics, activists, and writers issued a statement on Tuesday demanding immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested in connection with the violence at Maharashtra’s Bhima Koregaon in 2018 and the...

-Newsclick.in Pinarayi Vijayan’s government is supplying food kits and distributing social security pension to ensure no one remains hungry or destitute The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government is supplying food kits and distributing social security pension as celebrations for the harvest festival of Onam, which falls on August 21, have already started. Despite the Opposition’s criticism of these measures in the light of the daily spike in Covid cases, the Pinarayi Vijayan government...

-Newsclick.in The rural employment scheme puts cash in hands of the most vulnerable and also builds their resilience to extreme weather events while sequestering carbon. When a jobless Jagdish Kheda returned home from Udaipur during last year’s lockdown, he was hopeless. But his native Dedli village, in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan, saw a slew of activities in the next few months, including the construction of a check dam and a road and...

-The Hindu As many as 25 lakh mistakes rectified during the first phase An exercise launched in Rajasthan for mapping and seeding of beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) has led to rectification of errors relating to over 7 lakh families in 95 blocks. After the completion of first phase, the upcoming phases of the exercise will be run in a “mission mode”. State Food and Planning Secretary Naveen Jain said...