-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: With lakhs of people hit by floods in the wake of cyclone Phailin, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday sought immediate release of Rs 1,523 crore from the Centre for relief and rehabilitation. "I request the Centre to release an advance of Rs 1,000 crore over and above the corpus of Rs 523 crore available in the State Disaster Response Fund for the year 2013-14," Naveen...
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Children with special needs left out of class -Shreya Roy Chowdhury
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Over half the kids described by the government as "children with special needs" or CWSN are not in school. In response to an RTI filed by lawyer-activist Khagesh Jha, of the 20,759 CWSN identified across the dozen school districts, 11,463 are out-of-school. Northeast district is the worst-performing in this regard, with 1,820 CWSN out of school, followed by the south district with 1,543 children. But...
More »47 young labourers rescued from spinning mill in Erode-R Krishnamoorthy
-The Hindu Victims allegedly suffered deprivation and torture at the work place Erode: Forty-seven young labourers, including 24 from Chhattisgarh and 12 from Assam, most of them girls, were rescued from bondage in P.V. Spinning Mill at Vinnapalli village near Sathyamangalam in Erode district by a Team of officials on Monday night. The remaining 11 workers are all girls belonging to various parts of Tamil Nadu. Twenty of the youngsters from Chhattisgarh and...
More »Headlines Today cameras capture trucks diverting PDS wheat meant for Delhi's poor to private flour mills -Harish Sharma and Arun Singh
-India Today The UPA government and the Congress leadership might be patting themselves on the back talking big about the recently passed Food Security Bill, but their promises look far from delivery given the existing state of Public Distribution System (PDS). In a sting operation carried out by Headlines Today special investigation Team, hidden cameras caught the pilferage of grain meant for distribution among the national capital's poor people under the PDS....
More »9 lakh evacuated from path of Cyclone Phailin, death toll limited to 23 -Sandeep Mishra
-The Times of India GOPALPUR/CHATRAPUR: With meteorological warning systems working efficiently and swift reaction by the Odisha government and the Centre, the strongest cyclone to strike the country in the last 14 years began dissipating on Sunday, thwarted from its destructive potential by the mass evacuation of close to nine lakh people into cyclone shelters in a matter of hours and days. Roaring at more than 200 kmph, winds ripped through homes...
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