-The Business Standard The scheme can be named as 'Social Security Scheme' or 'We The People Scheme'; would not offer high returns like chit funds Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today proposed to launch a government-sponsored deposit-taking scheme to provide a secured saving option to the rural people of the state as an alternative. "To provide proper facility in the wake of growing financial insecurity, we are thinking of a social...
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HC issues non-bailable warrant against 3 dozen babus for contempt -Ravi Singh Sisodiya
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: A Lucknow bench of high court on Wednesday issued non-bailable warrants against three dozen state government officials for non-compliance of the court's orders. The state bureaucracy faced the ire of the bench for the second consecutive day for failing to carry out its orders within stipulated time despite being served contempt notices. The list of these officials includes Lucknow's DM Arurag Yadav and DIG Navniet...
More »Four UP Dalits, missing for a week, found murdered
-The Indian Express Lucknow: Four Dalit farmers, who were missing since April 30, were found murdered in Asmauli police station area of Sambhal district on Wednesday. The bodies were found buried in two trenches in a field. The bodies bore injury marks caused by sticks. The postmortem report is awaited to ascertain the exact reason of death, said Moradabad Range DIG Amrendra Kumar Sengar. The victims were identified as Vijay Singh (43), his...
More »Bastar tribals demand CBI probe -Rashmi Drolia
-The Times of India RAIPUR: Enraged tribals of Maoist hotbed Narayanpur district in tribal Bastar region of Chhattisgarh are demanding a CBI probe into thealleged police encounter of two villagers in Maronaar village near Chote Dongar on April 30. A joint team of COBRA battalion, CRPF and district force claimed to have gunned down Maoist cadres of Duala Dalam Phool Singh and Jai Singh. Since then police have been facing severe protest...
More »When development triggers caste violence -Hugo Gorringe
-The Hindu The educational and economic development of Dalits is seen by the backward castes as a challenge to the social order, as recent incidents in Tamil Nadu show On the evening of November 7, 2012, a crowd numbering over 1000 people burst into three Dalit settlements in Dharmapuri, north-western Tamil Nadu, and laid them waste. Over a period of several hours, they looted, smashed and burned. Trees had been felled on...
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