-IANS The crisis is mainly being brought about by three specific factors: climate change, pollution and poor farming practices Shimla and Bengaluru are two very disparate cities. One is a quaint hill station that acts as a summer retreat for most Indians while the other is a bustling IT hub, which makes it a popular destination for most of the corporates in India. Both are poles apart and, quite aptly, situated in opposite...
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Govt may bail out undertrial women -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The ministry of women and child development has sought relaxation in provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to allow bail to undertrial women inmates in jails, who have spent one-third of their maximum possible sentence in detention. The changes have been proposed to Section 436A of CrPC, which provides for release of an inmate on bail after half of the maximum sentence has been...
More »How India's Women Work: 80% Employed in Rural Areas, More Than Half Suffer Illiteracy -Rounak Kumar Gunjan
-News18.com Most of these women are agricultural labourers who work on someone else’s land in return for wages. New Delhi: Women living in urban parts of the country are involved in household chores more than their counterparts in rural areas. According to Census 2011 data and the latest round of National Sample Survey (NSS), rural women make up 81.29% of the female workforce in India. The statistic includes both marginal and main workers....
More »Through A Wider Lens -Rajni Bakshi
-The Indian Express AIIB meeting presents an opportunity to redefine the parameters of development. Budha Ismail Jam, a fisherman from Kutch, will be unknown to most delegates at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) annual meeting being held in Mumbai on June 25-26. Yet, Jam’s story has far-reaching implications if infrastructure projects are to be more focused on the well-being of people rather than the profit margins of investors. The third annual meeting...
More »NABARD figures misleading: Gujarat DCCBs collected highest average banned notes -Quaid Najmi
-National Herald/ IANS The National Bank for Agiculture & Rural Development (NABARD) had said in a statement on Friday, June 22 that demonetised ?500 and ?1,000 notes presented to district cooperative central banks (DCCBs) in Maharashtra were higher than those deposited in Gujarat, followed by Kerala. This statement, in essence, may be misleading. According to RTI information secured by Mumbai activist Manoranjan S Roy, Maharashtra's 30 DCCBs (out of total 370) secured...
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