-The Hindustan Times Maharashtra: Vidarbha is an unforgiving place, parched, dry and restive. It is a place of waiting - for the rains, for dams, for a harvest that may never come. Lately, there's been a storm brewing in these 11 arid districts "All of Maharashtra is getting richer, but here in Vidarbha, everything is standing still," says Sachin Gawande, 30, a graduate and farmer from Risod town in Akola. "Ours remains...
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Only 40 per cent of middle class has piped water connection: survey-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Not all of the Indian middle class has access to all amenities yet. According to latest data from National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), only 40 per cent of those in the middle class, comprising households with annual income above Rs. 88,800 annually (an estimate suggested by NCAER researchers), have piped water connections, and only 15 per cent get three hours of water supply every day. Just over...
More »Community radio helps them beat boredom-Renuka Phadnis
-The Hindu Content available in five languages from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mangalore: Nalini Kotekar, a resident of village Kotekar, 18 km from Mangalore, rolls beedis for a living. To break the drudgery of her work, she listens to the radio but not broadcast from the advertisement-packed radio stations relaying popular cine songs. She becomes nostalgic as speakers discuss issues of yesteryear in "Tulu Chavadi", a programme beamed by Sarang, a radio...
More »Kejriwal's swearing-in ceremony expenses equal to food bill of UPA's anniversary bash -Arunav Sinha
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Learning a lesson from the lavish anniversary bash of the United Progressive Alliance, which had a number of exquisite food items, the Aam Aadmi Party decided to invest less on food items served during the December 28, 2013 swearing-in ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal held at Delhi's Ramlila Ground, and settled for Rs 405 per head, while the overall expenses stood at Rs 6,33,802. This is in stark...
More »Babudom stifling RTI, PIL in SC says -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A man seeking land registration details in a village through Right to Information Act was asked to pay a fee in excess of Rs 21 lakh. When a below poverty line person put up an RTI query on distribution of food grains under PDS, he was told to deposit Rs 2,000 to get the information. Citing these and many such examples, advocate Sanjeeb Panigrahi has filed...
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