-The Hindu As INCidents escalate amid the marathon Assembly polls, analysts point to a historical antecedents of widespread attacks Kolkata: Halfway into the marathon 33-day, eight-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal, leaders of the two major political parties are already talking about how violent these ongoing elections are. The ongoing 2021 poll is being compared to the 2018 panchayat polls in the State. While Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah said...
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Northeast citizens faced racial discrimination amid COVID-19 outbreak, says govt. study -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu They were “harassed, abused and traumatised” and disparagingly called ‘coronavirus,’ says study A study commissioned by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) on racial discrimination and hate crimes against people from the northeast States found that the “northeast India seamlessly fits [an] Indian’s imagination of a Chinese person”. The study found that 78% of the people from the region who were interviewed believed that physical appearance was the most...
More »Over 1.5 lakh new cases for the third consecutive day
-The Hindu Maharashtra reports 51,751 infections, 258 casualties As of 11.55 p.m. on Monday, India reported 1,60,695 COVID-19 cases. As many as 864 deaths were also recorded on the day. The figures do not INClude cases and deaths from Ladakh U.T. and Manipur. The data is sourced from covid19india.org, an independent aggregator of daily COVID-19 figures. Only 11.80 lakh tests were conducted on Sunday (and for whom results were made available on Monday), about...
More »Create a sustainable pathway for farmers -Baldev Singh Dhillon and Kamal Vatta
-The Tribune While attracting private capital investments in production, processing and marketing of high-value agriculture, the associated adverse socio-economic implications must be avoided. Last year, Parliament enacted the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020. It is supposed to empower farmers to get engaged with upgraded value chain partners in a fair, transparent, mutually agreeable and remunerative manner to enhance their INCome by reducing marketing risks....
More »Born in the pandemic, these libraries in Bengal run with meagre resources but get people reading -Rohan Datta
-Scroll.in One of them is in Kolkata, and the other, in a village. Both were set up to keep schoolchildren amidst books. The distance between the posh neighbourhood of Patuli in Kolkata and the dusty meandering roads of Ashina village is over 50 kilometres. The villagers of Ashina most likely have never seen the towering housing complexes near the Satyajit Ray Park in Patuli. Similarly, most of the residents of Patuli may...
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