-PTI Most of the dead were migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Fifty-seven people were injured Amritsar: The railways were not informed about the trackside Dussehra event, nor was permission sought from the civic body, officials said a day after a train mowed down 59 revellers during a Ravan Dahan near Amritsar. Residents of the area, Joda Phatak, asserted that the event, which involves the burning of Ravan’s effigy, had been going...
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Beat the queue at airports, railway stations by being honest in paying income tax
-Livemint.com The Income Tax department is in the process of chalking out a new policy which will reward taxpayers who are not only honest but also consistent in filing ITRs. The rewards could include priority access at airports and railway stations. New Delhi: Want to beat the queue at airports, railway stations and toll gates on highways? Filing your income tax returns (ITR) honestly and consistently every year on time can be...
More »Blown off by the Titli winds: Hundreds of birds die in Odisha -Sib Kumar Das
-The Hindu Over 5,000 open-billed storks and other birds killed by the gusts BERHAMPUR: Among the casualties of cyclone Titli are hundreds of open-billed storks which were killed and many injured near the Jagannathpur railway station on the city’s outskirts here. The dead birds were seen scattered all around the railway station and adjoining fields. The injured appear to have taken shelter under the railway wagons and nearby shady places. Some of these...
More »The bullet train may trigger social conflict and have significant environmental cost -Mayank Aggarwal
-Mongabay.com * December 2018 is the official deadline for the land acquisition for the bullet train project but till now not even one percent of the required land is acquired. A court case is already going on in the Gujarat High Court against the land acquisition process undertaken by the Gujarat government. * Despite documents showing that the project has the potential to cause social conflict and have adverse environmental impacts, the...
More »The time is ripe for unity -Prabhat Patnaik
-The Telegraph Over 1.5 lakh farm and industrial workers walked together in Delhi on September 5, not because no one thought of it sooner, but because the conditions have now been created to prompt it On September 5 an event of great significance occurred in the capital: more than 1.5 lakh workers, peasants and agricultural labourers staged a rally on Parliament Street. The capital has certainly seen much bigger rallies in the...
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