-The Indian Express Nagpur: In Gadchiroli, where disadvantaged tribal youths have no employment opportunities other than in police and forest departments, a scheme providing assured jobs in five-star hotels and automobile and construction industries is proving to be a huge draw. ‘Skills development programme’ has since its launch in June last year provided jobs to over 170 youth with income ranging from Rs 4,000 to Rs 12,000. Those with a Rs-4,000 package are...

-The Hindu “People’s tastes have changed and there is no respect for us in society” Chennai: Thanjavur may be a land of classical music and dance, but in three places, particularly in – Vadakku Vaasal, Keezha Vaasal and Reddipalayam – many Dalit folk artists are on the verge of quitting their profession. Though people from all communities perform folk arts, majority of them are Dalits who migrated from Ramanathapuram district around 60...

-PTI Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said nuclear power was an essential component of India's energy mix and he will ensure that the safety and Livelihoods of people are not jeopardised in its pursuit. "We will ensure that the safety and Livelihoods of people are not jeopardised in our pursuit of nuclear power," Singh said at a function to confer lifetime achievement awards on four nuclear scientists. Noting that the 2011 Fukushima incident...

-The Economic Times When asked where the coal blocks will come up, the forest officer draws a clover-shaped map. Take the right at the traffic intersection, he says, and you will enter Pathriya Dand coal block. Keep going for 11 km and the road turns to the left, which is where Gidhmudi coal block is. Come back to the main road, cross over to the other side, and you will enter...

-The Hindu Refusal by Dalits to work as agricultural labour and to perform menial duties plus their relative economic improvement have made them the targets of caste violence In the recent violence against the Dalits in Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu, about 300 of their houses were burnt down and other properties destroyed by the Vanniars, a numerically strong intermediate caste, sections of whom have been economically stagnant. The immediate cause for...