-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Heavy rains and floods have claimed 537 human lives across six States in the current monsoon season. Maharashtra is the worst affected with 139 fatal casualties so far, followed by Kerala with 126 deaths, West Bengal with 116, UP with 70, Gujarat with 52 and Assam with 34 deaths, according to data maintained by the home ministry’s National Emergency Response Centre. Another 13 persons are reported...
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Kharif planting lags despite MSP hikes, normal monsoon -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express One reason for the MSPs not having the desired impact could be the delayed announcement. Farmers usually make sowing decisions before the onset of the monsoon. New Delhi: The government may have substantially hiked minimum support prices (MSP) of crops being grown in the current kharif season. That, along with most parts of India receiving good rain until now, should have considerably boosted plantings by farmers this time. However, the...
More »SC scan on info panel vacancies -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and nine States, including Bengal, to file affidavits within four weeks stating by when they would fill their vacant posts of information commissioners and, in some cases, even chief information commissioners. The bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan were hearing a petition from RTI activist Anjali Bharadwaj, who cited four vacancies in the Central Information Commission and many...
More »Shelter kids expose predator 'uncles' -Ramashankar
-The Telegraph Patna: As soon as the Sun set, the girls would be scared. The nights were full of terror. That was what a 10-year-old girl, from the Balika Grih in Muzaffarpur at the centre of the sexual abuse horror, said in Hindi before a judicial magistrate. The Bihar government blinked and recommended a CBI probe into the rampant abuse at the Balika Grih, a government-funded shelter home run by an NGO,...
More »Civil society groups ask for proper implementation of NFSA in Delhi to end starvation deaths in the future
-Press statement by Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan (DRRAA) dated 27th July, 2018 The Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan (DRRAA) is shocked and saddened by the news of the deaths of 3 minor girls in Mandawali, East Delhi due to starvation. As per media reports, the post mortem has confirmed that the children aged 2, 4 and 8 died of starvation. While further details about the circumstances are awaited and the...
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