-The Hindu Puducherry: Revenue officials from Puducherry rescued 10 persons, including a child, of the Irula community who were employed as bonded labourers in a sugarcane farm in Andhra Pradesh. Senthamilselvan, Bhaskar, Jayamoorthy, Valarmathi, Azhagar, Shekar, Shaktivel, Rani, Kalyani and 5-year-old Vijay, all from Earipakkam near Bahour in Puducherry, were employed in a sugarcane field in Illathur in Andhra Pradesh. Speaking to The Hindu, District Collector S.B. Deepak Kumar said the issue came...

-The Hindu     With the closing of relief camps in Muzaffarnagar, even the meagre food support has disappeared. As the winter cold descends this year on Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in Western U.P., some 20,000 people will camp in makeshift unofficial camps amidst squalor and official neglect, or survive in small rented tenements or with relatives - exiles from the villages of their birth. Three months after one of the grimmest communal outbreaks...

-The Hindu EDI in District Information System for Education released Bangalore: The State stands fifth in the Composite Educational Development Index (EDI) contained in the recent District Information System for Education (DISE) 2012-2013 provisional report. Last year, the State had secured three ranks higherthan this. This year, the EDI is 0.661. EDI is calculated using a set of 24 indicators under four sub-groups such as access, infrastructure, Teachers and outcome indicators. The data...

-The Indian Express Aizawl: With the Congress set to form a government for the second consecutive term, the Mizoram government is wasting no time in continuing it's flagship beneficiary scheme beginning with a high-level meeting on Friday to decide on land-use conversion and Teams scheduled to visit sites earmarked for infrastructure projects. The NLUP implementing board is scheduled to have a meeting headed by Chief Secretary on Friday, a day before state...

-The Business Standard Onion prices in wholesale markets of Mumbai declined 48.6%, the steepest among the four metros, compared to October In November, onions, which stoked inflation in recent months and probably played a part in the Congress party's dismal performance in four Assembly elections, turned cheaper in four major cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata - at both the wholesale and retail levels. However, the decline in wholesale prices was...