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'Draft pesticide Pesticides Management bill will hurt farmers' -PRIscilla Jebaraj

-The Hindu Clause on listing ingredients dropped. A group of Indian pesticide manufacturers says that the proposed Pesticides Management Bill, which is likely to be finalised this month, will harm both farmers and the domestic industry by not making it mandatory for the active ingredients of pesticides to be revealed in the registration process. “The draft Bill will allow importers to register readymade products without registering the active ingredients,” said Pradip Dave, President...

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Koregaon cuffs on editor, professor -Pheroze L Vincent

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Police have arrested five activists, including an editor, a professor and a lawyer, on the suspicion of being Maoists, more than six months after an attack by alleged Hindutva groups on Ambedkarities visiting a war memorial near Pune. Those arrested have been booked under several charges, including the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Pune police on Wednesday arrested Committee for the Release of Political PRIsoners (CRPP) spokesperson Rona Wilson from...

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Solar microgrids light up remote Jharkhand villages -PRIscilla Jebaraj

-The Hindu New policy hopes to expand their reach and spread Birgaon: When the lights went on in Birgaon for the first time on a chilly winter evening late last December, it allowed the government to announce in April this year that every village in India now had electricity. Every home in Birgaon actually has power, thanks to a solar microgrid set up in the village centre and wired into every home. By...

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65 per cent satisfied with policing in the country: Report

-PTI NEW DELHI: Around 65 per cent of people find policing satisfactory in the country, according to a report which also stated that Delhi is one of the "worst" states as far as public satisfaction over police help is concerned. The 'Status of Policing in India Report 2018', that studies performance and perceptions concerning police in 22 states, was released here on Wednesday. The report says that in Haryana, highest (71 per cent)...

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Muslims Representation in Police Low, Number of PRIsoners Relatively High -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

-TheWire.in A report points at how a large number of Muslims feel they are implicated in terrorism cases, Dalits for petty crimes, and Adivasis for being Maoists. Muslim representation in the police force remains abysmally low whereas the community continues to have a disproportionately high representation in PRIsons, a report brought out by Common Cause and the Lokniti-Programme for Comparative Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) has...

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