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Bihar farmers question government decision to end diesel subsidy for them -Mohd Imran Khan

-Down to Earth Power supply in villages still uncertain, they say Farmers in Bihar have questioned the state government’s decision December 21, 2020, to end subsidy to them for diesel, which has been around for almost a decade, on the grounds that rural areas of the state are receiving sufficient power. Farmers in the state told this reporter that the reasons given by the government for rescinding the subsidy did not make sense....

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ED attaches Rs 255-crore assests for alleged agri loan fraud, duping farmers in Maharashtra

-PTI/ ThePrint.in Assets of Gangakhed Sugar & Energy Limited and Yogeswari Hatcheries and Gangakhed Solar Power Limited were provisionally attached under PMLA. New Delhi: Properties worth Rs 255 crore have been attached in connection with a money laundering probe linked to a case of alleged agricultural loan fraud and duping of farmers in Maharashtra, the Enforcement Directorate said on Wednesday. “Assets worth Rs 255 crore of Gangakhed Sugar & Energy Limited (GSEL), Yogeswari...

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Southeast Asia and the right to safe water -Sam Geall

-TheThirdPole.net More than 100 million people live without access to safe water in Southeast Asia, Sam Geall writes about what can be done to improve that and to protect clean water sources On 6 November, the Mekong River Commission acknowledged that climate change had exacerbated this year’s wildly varying water levels on the Mekong – which saw the mighty river reduced to a trickle in parts, even during the rainy season. But...

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Women out of work: ‘We were moving up the ladder and ab lagta hai kisi ne seedhi chheen li’ -Somya Lakhani

-The Indian Express The Covid lockdown has set off sweeping economic distress in cities but its crucial dimension has remained untold: the silent, devastating toll on the working woman in the city suddenly out of work *A month into the lockdown after she lost her job at an Energy policy institute that paid  Rs 24,000 a month, 29-year-old Reshma, a post-graduate in social work, sent her four-year-old daughter to live with her...

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Delhi eateries face social media backlash for distributing food among Rohingya refugees on Navratri

-IndiaToday.in The owners of one of the restaurants said they received widespread criticism for distributing food among Rohingya refugees in Delhi to the extent that the establishment was inundated with negative reviews on online food aggregators. Three Delhi-based restaurants were on the receiving end of praise and criticism for handing out food assistance to Rohingya refugees on the occasion of Navratri. Owners of these eateries were photographed distributing food among Rohingya refugees...

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