-PTI Vigilante groups target Dalits as they are "soft targets" while refraining from confronting those involved in cow slaughter: fact finding team. Ahmedabad: A fact finding team which visited Gujarat’s Una town in connection with the brutal assault of Dalits, has claimed to have found a new trend among ‘cow vigilantes’ to show bravado by making a particular Dalit community as their “soft target”. The incident of beating up of seven Dalit youths...
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Online petition questions lack of toilets for women along highways -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu “I am extremely disturbed at seeing how women suffer when they travel by bus because they don’t have decent toilet options available,” says Mr. N.V. Vasudeva Sharma, who works in the field of child rights. Mr. Sharma has now decided to do more than just hearing the women out. He started an online petition on Change.org with a single signature. The petition, which has found 1,14,296 supporters now, will now...
More »Dare To Dream: Path-Breaking Initiatives For Rural India
-HuffingtonPost.in Going back to the grassroots. Gone are the days when businesses focused solely on the bottom lines; today more and more corporates are embracing the concept of the 3 Ps: People, Profit, and Planet. As more and more organisations step up to do their bit for the community and the environment, many opportunities are opening up to improve and impact both the urban and especially the rural landscapes. Here's a quick...
More »Whitefly back, Centre to help Punjab fight it, PAU to develop resistant seeds
-Hindustan Times Bathinda: That pest whitefly is back. At least 4,400 hectares of the 36,000-hectare cotton area in Punjab’s border belt of Fazilka is under its invasion . The Centre will remain in touch with the state government to protect the crop in the remaining season. The next 45 days are critical, so the Union Ministry of Agriculture will keep the fibre crop under its eyes throughout. On Saturday, its three-member expert...
More »Uttarakhand rains: Death toll rises to 43 -Gaurav Talwar
-The Times of India DEHRADUN: At least 43 people lost their lives and 23 got injured so far in the natural disasters triggered by torrential rainfall in Uttarakhand during this year's monsoon season, which started from June 1. Besides, several heads of animals were also killed in the state since June this year along with considerable damage to property. Since the onset of monsoon season in the state, 27 people have been...
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