A 50-year-old labourer, Subal Mahato, was allegedly beaten to death by his employer for demanding revised wages in accordance with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in Bokaro on Saturday night. According to NREGA Commissioner Ajay Kumar Singh, Mahato, a resident of Bathua village under Chas block in Bokaro district, was one of the nine workers hired to dig a well. The project, sanctioned for 2010-11, was undertaken...
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Bird flu strikes Agartala duck farm by Gargi Parsai
Bird flu has struck the country again. This time in the State Duck Breeding Farm in Agartala that has been ordered to cull all poultry within a radius of 3 km of the farm. The State will also impose a ban on movement of poultry and its products and order closure of all poultry egg market and outlets within a radius of 10 km. With this incidence, India has lost the...
More »PHFI rejected HPV vaccine project proposal by Aarti Dhar
Said it failed to state ethical aspects involved in the study Proposal was based on the assumption that vaccine was safe and efficacious: PHFI Brinda demands compensation for all subjects victimised by vaccine programme The proposal for conducting the now controversial “Post-licensure observational study of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination: Demonstration Project,” carried out by a non-governmental organisation PATH for two major pharmaceutical companies, had been turned down by the Public Health Foundation...
More »2,639 Orissa farmers committed suicide in ten years
A total of 2,639 farmers killed themselves in Orissa in the past ten years, the state's Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout said Tuesday. He also claimed that none of the suicides was due to farm related problems or crop loss. The farmers killed themselves mostly due to personal problems and family disputes, he told the state assembly. Of the total deaths, 2,575 committed suicide between 2000 and 2008. The remaining 64 deaths took...
More »Netai double blow to CID in court
Calcutta High Court today came down on the CID for its failure to track down all the accused in the Netai killings. Nine persons were killed when alleged CPM activists fired on villagers from an armed party camp in Netai in West Midnapore on January 7. Today, a division bench of Chief Justice J.N. Patel and Justice A.K. Roy criticised the state for not paying enough attention to the case. The court...
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