-Scroll.in The Swaraj India leader says the economy needs a big boost in the rural areas and for small scale manufacturers. In July, Yogendra Yadav, the national president of the Swaraj India party, embarked on a nationwide movement accompanied by activists and hundreds of farmers. Under the banner of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee, a coalition of more than 150 farmer unions across the country, the yatra was planned...
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Stubble burning begins: Hold your breath Delhiites, that deadly smog is coming - Joydeep Thakur and Ritam Halder
-Hindustan Times Every year in October, farmers in northern India burn stubble due to lack of alternative ways for its disposal. This leads to heavy pollution in Delhi-NCR before winters. This year too, as farmers begin to set stubble afire, HT travels to Punjab and Haryana for a ground report. Honking its way down the narrow Taraouri Road, in Haryana’s Karnal district, the 16-wheeler truck vanished into a dense cloud of...
More »UP: Some comic no relief -Abheek Barman
-The Economic Times blog In 2016-17, the average Indian earned Rs 1.12 lakh a year, about Rs 9,300 every month. That year, the average person in Kerala made Rs 1.98 lakh a year, a monthly income of Rs 16,500. Uttar Pradesh is home to 200 million people, the combined population of Italy, South Korea and Spain. Each average person in UP earns Rs 72,300 every year, around Rs 6,000 per month. The...
More »SC concerned over abuses, falsehoods on social media, agrees there should be curbs -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed concern over abusive and derogatory comments on social media and agreed with the contention of two senior advocates that people doing so should face the consequences. The court also hit back at those alleging that judges were increasingly becoming "pro-government". It said such accusations were unfortunate and people should come and sit in courtrooms to see how courts "hauled up"...
More »Kerala leads in hypertension, Puducherry has most diabetics: Nutrition study reveals red flags
-TheNewsMinute.com The study also found that children from disadvantaged communities had worse nutritional indicators than others. Lifestyle-related diseases in an urban setting have become the norm. Now a large-scale nutrition study involving almost 1.72 lakh subjects from 52,577 households across 16 Indian states has revealed that Kerala has the highest prevalence of hypertension as well as high cholesterol in urban men and women. Not far behind is Puducherry that tops in the list...
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