Almost six months after MBA student Ranbir Singh was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Dehra Dun, the CBI has filed a chargesheet against 18 police personnel, including seven for murder, in the CBI court in Dehra Dun. The CBI filed murder charges against seven police personnel, including Arag-har Chowki in-charge G.D. Bhatt, for allegedly kidnapping and killing Ranbir Singh on July 3. The CBI also accused all 18 cops...
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A Full Round Meal by Sharat Pradhan
Barely 50 km from the capital of India's most populous state, in Daulatpur village in Barabanki district, a mini agriculture revolution is taking place. What 41-year-old Ram Saran Verma began in 1996 on a 6-acre plot of land in a remote rural pocket has now grown into an 85-acre empire that feeds hundreds of workers, besides providing indirect employment to many more. "The urge to do something beyond the routine...
More »No guarantees for work in Melghat by Meena Menon
It was a night out under the stars. These were not city slickers but a group of villagers from Salona. On the way down from Chikhaldhara hill station in Amravati district, the darkness of the cold night is lit by small fires. Groups of people huddle around the flickering flames. Their children lie swaddled in thin bedclothes which cannot keep the chill away. Shivlal Belsare and his wife are finishing off...
More »Built on illusion by Jayati Ghosh
The collapse of the Dubai dream is not without any implications; it may be an indication that the travails of finance capitalism are not over. GLOBAL capitalism is in a phase in which it must deal with the fruits of the overextension during the previous boom, and there is no doubt that this is going to be painful. The financial crisis in the United States and some other developed countries...
More »‘Mamata’s proposal to set up Railway project at Singur is welcome’ by Marcus Dam
Welcoming the proposal by the Railways for setting up a coach manufacturing unit on the land that was earlier acquired by the State government for Tata Motors’s small car project which was subsequently relocated from Singur, the State’s Industries Minister, Nirupam Sen told the West Bengal Assembly here on Wednesday that it was one case with a hope of achieving consensus in the State on setting up industry. According to...
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