-The Hindu JAGDALPUR: With semi-automatic weapons slung over their shoulders, these soldiers are more than just patrolling arterial village roads. They are in the midst of full-scale battles in which several people, mostly non-combatants, are getting killed. Forces have been mobilised in their thousands; dehydrated soldiers are getting evacuated by the Indian Air Force; corpses are removed in huge tractors meant for transporting farm produce; and Maoists are intensifying coordination at...
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6 tribals rescued from Karnataka -Satyanarayan Pattnaik
-The Times of India KORAPUT: Underpaid and tortured at workplace, six tribals were rescued by Malkangiri police in association with their Hassan counterparts in Karnataka on Saturday. According to sources, an agent identified as Rama Khillo of Sileru in Andhra Pradesh had lured these people, aged between 20 and 25 years, from Malkangiri district's RAC 1 village underKorkunda block with promises of better livelihood at Hassan on April 5. "These people were taken...
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-The Business Standard How to fix the agricultural pricing mess The government's move to get the mandate of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) reviewed afresh by an expert panel needs to be viewed in a broader perspective - one that weighs political populism against economic logic. It has been argued that minimum support prices (MSPs) have been raised often - and supposedly partly for political reasons - during the...
More »Farmers’ suicide rates soar above the rest-P Sainath
-The Hindu Suicide rates among Indian farmers were a chilling 47 per cent higher than they were for the rest of the population in 2011. In some of the States worst hit by the agrarian crisis, they were well over 100 per cent higher. The new Census 2011 data reveal a shrinking farmer population. And it is on this reduced base that the farm suicides now occur. Apply the new Census totals...
More »Assamese students study for only 2.3 hours compared to 6 hours in other States: NCERT
-The Hindu Students in government schools in Assam study only for two-and-a-half hours every day at the primary level compared to five-and-a-half to six-and-a-half hours in the rest of the country, an official study has shown. Similarly, the total number of working days in primary schools each year is 180 in Nagaland and Manipur and a maximum of 253 in Bihar and Jharkhand with lower than average literacy rates. But in most...
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