-The Indian Express Baigas in court against order issued by govt of undivided MP Achanakmar: “THAK GAYI (I am tired),” says Ranichand Baiga, 26. She was married at 15, and in a tribe where non-surgical contraceptives are still unheard of, has since had eight children. Two, she says, died of illness. On her arm, outside her one-room home in the core zone of the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve, is her youngest son, Surya,...
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Waiving loans doesn't end the distress -Rajalakshmi Nirmal
-The Hindu Business Line The solution lies in better prices for produce, generating non-farm income, and reducing costs of farming After the Yogi Adityanath government waived farm loans of about ?36,000 crore for UP farmers, pressure has mounted on other States to follow suit. But contrary to common belief, debt waivers aside from possibly guaranteeing electoral victory, do little to alleviate the plight of farmers. Neither do they help kick-start the rural...
More »Days after Jharkhand breach, govt websites continue to bleed Aadhaar data -Aman Sethi, Samarth Bansal and Saurav Roy
-Hindustan Times Days after Hindustan Times reported a data breach of over a million Aadhaar numbers from a Jharkhand government website, at least four more instances of similar leaks on other government websites have come to light. These breaches come at a time when the Supreme Court is hearing a set of petitions challenging a controversial government decision to make it mandatory to seed Permanent Account Numbers (PAN) with Aadhaar numbers for...
More »410 people died on Indian roads every day last year -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: At least 410 people lost their lives daily in road accidents across India last year compared to 400 lives in 2015. On the other hand, the rate of rise in fatalities came down in 2016 compared to the previous year. Data Accessed by TOI showed nearly 1.5 lakh people were killed in accidents last year compared to 1.46 lakh in 2015. India has recorded the maximum deaths in...
More »Lakhs of Aadhaar numbers appear on Jharkhand govt site -Prashant Pandey
-The Indian Express It’s unclear for how long the data had been displayed on the website. Ranchi: The Aadhaar numbers of lakhs of pension beneficiaries are suspected to have been displayed on a government website in Jharkhand in violation of the Aadhaar Act, which mandates that the unique identity number can’t be “published, displayed or posted publicly”. The lapse came to light on Saturday evening when the UIDAI office in Ranchi called...
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