-Deutsche Welle/ The Telegraph Financial burdens caused by climate change and government polices have led to an rise in the number of suicides among agricultural workers, experts say. The Maharashtra state has suffered more than most New Delhi: In India, over 600 farmers in the region of Marathwada, Maharashtra state, have died from suicide this year, according to official figures, with a majority of deaths blamed on rains that damaged thousands of...
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Tamil Nadu: People above 80 may get higher old-age pension under new govt policy -C Shivakumar
-The New Indian Express Currently, all those who are above 60 years of age and fulfill the economic criteria stipulated by the government are eligible for a monthly pension of Rs 1,000 in the State. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government may soon tweak the old-age pension scheme offered for senior citizens by introducing an age-based differential pension scheme for people in the 60-70, 70-80, and 80+ age groups. According to the new Senior Citizen...
More »Near-Catastrophe At Madhya Pradesh's Karam Dam Brings Tender Scam In Focus Again -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com Karam Dam one of many being probed, BJP has said; wider scam pegged at ₹ 3,000 crore; minister says won't spare guilty "even if from our party" Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh's Karam Dam, at the centre of a near-catastrophe after cracks earlier this week, has been in the headlines for leaks earlier too — of public money, that is. Its part-collapse after heavy rain brings back into focus the e-tendering scam that...
More »The shackles of 1861 need to go -RK Vij
-The Hindu Though much has changed, attention needs to be paid to lingering issues in India’s police agency As India is celebrating 75 years of Independence, the police continue to be in the public gaze, most often for antagonistic reasons. Criminal laws and procedures, though modified, and the shadows of India’s colonial legacy do not appear to leave the police agency any time soon. Changes to the IPC India’s parliamentarians rose to the occasion...
More »‘He wanted water’: How Dalit boy’s death opened up caste fissures in Jalore village -Mohana Basu
-ThePrint.in Inder Meghwal died Saturday — over 20 days after a teacher allegedly slapped him for drinking water from a clay pot. The family accuses the police of coverup. Jalore: Outside the house of 9-year-old Inder Meghwal in Surana village in Jalore, there’s chaos. Hundreds of people have gathered there to demand justice for the 9-year-old Dalit boy who allegedly died Saturday after his teacher slapped him for drinking water out of...
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