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Scheduled castes better off than scheduled tribes: Census data

-Business Standard Roughly 20% of ST households own a television, compared with 39% of SC households Scheduled caste (SC) households are materially better off than scheduled tribe (ST) households, according to the latest census data on asset ownership. Data released on Wednesday showed 38.5 per cent of ST households owned none of the eight assets on which information was collected in 2011, while only 22.6 per cent of SC households owned none...

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Use app to report traffic violation -Lelin Kumar Mallick

-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: Your smartphone has one more job to do - spot and alert authorities with visual evidence of traffic violations. From next month, one can click photographs of traffic violators on their Mobile Phone and send it to the authorities using a special app that the Regional Transport Office (RTO), Bhubaneswar-II, has decided to come up with. The app will help residents here to directly report incidents of traffic violations to...

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Cheaper data tariff driving rural boom in internet usage, says govt -M Rajendran

-Hindustan Times Declining data cost is boosting data traffic and internet usage in India and will take rural users to 87 million by December-end and 106 million by end-March 2016, a study by the communications ministry says. India has overtaken US and is behind only China on internet usage, and the government expects user-base to hit 450 million by next year-end. “Our studies have shown that the growth of e-commerce activities and government-to-citizen online...

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Nearly half of India’s districts drought-hit as crisis accelerates -Samar Halarnkar

-Hindustan Times India, the father of the nation famously said, lives in its villages, or, as many call it, Bharat. There is no doubt that a great shift is underway: As 600 million move out of rural areas over the next 35 years, India will need about 500 new cities. But unless Bharat offers a fraction of the hope that ushered in Narendra Modi’s era, the ongoing urban transformation of India...

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Deluged Chennai cries for help as airport flooded, trains stop, phones out

-The Times of India CHENNAI: There was no let up to the rain fury in the city and several coastal parts of Tamil Nadu. The city received 34.5cm rain in the past 24 hours. Met officials said the state hasn't been lashed by such a downpour in 100 years. Road and and rail links are down and the airport is flooded. Complaints of patchy to poor Mobile Phone service have been coming...

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