-Newsclick.in The apex court has rapped state governments for not filing compliance reports. On Friday, the Supreme Court directed the state governments to file compliance reports within a week on the measures taken to tackle mob lynching in furtherance of its July 17 judgement. In the judgement, the Supreme Court had directed the state governments to file their compliance reports with the Court Registry within four weeks. The matter was listed for...
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Milk and honey for schools -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has asked the States to consider serving milk, milk products and honey with their school midday meals, explaining this can be a way of using up the country's surplus stocks of these foodstuff. Nutritionists and health activists have welcomed the move but questioned the objective of exhausting surplus milk powder and honey. Some have cited the absence of additional funding as a deterrent to implementation, for...
More »Note ban failed to curb the menace of counterfeit currency, indicates RBI's Annual Report
Although containing fake notes in circulation was one of the objectives behind demonetisation when it was undertaken in 2016, recent data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reveals that fake counterparts of some denominations grew during 2017-18 vis-à-vis the previous year. The recently released Annual Report for 2017-18 of the RBI shows that the total number of pieces of counterfeit notes of Rs. 2000/- denomination, which was detected in the...
More »In Odisha's Chromite Valley, Adivasis Are Paid in Poisoned Water -Sweta Dash and Abinash Dash Choudhury
-TheWire.in Sukinda, the world’s largest open-cast mining area, is also the world’s fourth-most polluted place – and the cost is carried by its original inhabitants. Sukinda (Jajpur district, Odisha): Outside her mud-walled house, Pitayi Mankidia, 30, is holding her two-year-old daughter Huli, who is crying. Huli’s face is smeared with neem leaves to soothe the pain and itching that is aggravated by the dust in the area. Both mother and daughter have...
More »SC asks States to file report on dealing with cow vigilantism, lynchings within one week
-Hindustan Times The court noted that only 11 States had filed compliance reports. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked all States to comply with its directions to deal with incidents of cow vigilantism and mob lynching, reported news agency PTI. Noting that only 11 States had filed compliance reports following its July 17 verdict on cow vigilantism, the court asked the remaining States to file their reports within one week. “If reports...
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