-The Telegraph The victims include a child and six women, aged between seven and 52, and a newly married couple Bolpur (Birbhum): The charred bodies of at least eight persons were found in two houses at Bogtui village on the outskirts of Birbhum’s Rampurhat on Tuesday amid allegations that they were burnt alive in retaliation to the killing of Bhadu Sheikh, a Trinamul leader, on Monday night. Calcutta High Court steps in, to...
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Telangana farmers pushed to suicide after pest attack destroys chilli crop -Shagun
-Down to Earth There has been no announcement on compensation to farmers who have lost their crops Twenty farmers have died by suicide since January 2022 in Telangana’s Mahabubad district after insect infestation destroyed their chilli crop, a ground survey by the Human Rights Forum (HRF) and Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) has claimed. Five suicides have also been reported in Khammam district. Thrips parvispinus, an invasive pest from Indonesia, has spread rapidly, especially...
More »Parl Committee Asks Govt Why It Didn’t Use PSUs To Make COVID Drugs -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * The Parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and fertilisers has produced a report highlighting gaps in the availability of COVID-19 drugs and devices during the pandemic. * The committee has asked the national government why PSUs didn’t receive licenses to make COVID drugs when private manufacturers did. * The MPs on the committee also spotlighted widespread irrational drug use in COVID-19 management, despite the existence of a standard treatment protocol. New Delhi: The...
More »Soaring prices of wheat also have broad implications -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com Painful food inflation has stoked political unrest in many countries before and could do so again In order to understand the political and economic repercussions of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, analysts and economists have been concentrating on the rise of crude oil and natural gas prices, among other things. This isn’t surprising given that Russia is the world’s second largest exporter of oil and the largest exporter of natural gas. But...
More »Trinamul leader's killing in Birbhum sparks violence, arson; Governor seeks report from chief secy -Arnab Ganguly
-The Telegraph Panchayat office-bearer dies after bomb attack, but DGP denies political motive, state government forms SIT; 10 charred bodies recovered in Baktui in Rampurhat; Dhankhar says law and order in Bengal has ‘capsized’ Calcutta: Murder of a Trinamul panchayat office-bearer in a Birbhum village on Monday night sparked an orgy of violence that has claimed the lives of at least 10 more people with seven charred bodies found by the fire...
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