-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Thursday’s scenes of waterlogged roads and long traffic jams in rain-hit Mumbai could well be playing out in Delhi a few weeks later. For, the deadline set for de-silting of drains in the capital is just eight days away and the civic agencies are woefully behind schedule. The situation is particularly worrisome in East Delhi, where the municipal corporation has only been able to achieve barely...
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In Bihar's Banka, Women Build a Road the Government Couldn't
-TheWire.in Landowners who had earlier refused to give up their property for the road said they changed their minds on seeing the women's enthusiasm. New Delhi: Women from a remote village in Bihar’s Banka district have pooled together to fix what has been a major concern – the lack of a road in the area. According to a report in the Telegraph, more than 130 women from Nima village decided that they could...
More »Jharkhand: No food at home, woman died; govt says she had money in bank -Prashant Pandey
-The Indian Express Officials said Devi was suffering from parenchymal haematoma, or bleeding inside the brain, for which she was treated at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi. Further, they said, her bank account had Rs 2,375. Mangargaddi (Giridih): THE JHARKHAND government has cited medical and bank records to deny reports that the death of a woman in Giridih last week was due to starvation. But her family maintains...
More »Farmers' organisations seek enactment of Freedom from Debt Bill, Guaranteed Fair and Remunerative Prices Bill -Joe C Mathew
-IndiaToday.in New Delhi: All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), a coalition of 193 farmers' organisations from across the country, will lobby for the enactment of two private bills - Farmers' Freedom from Debt Bill and Guaranteed Fair and Remunerative Prices Bill - to ensure comprehensive debt relief to farmers and remunerative prices for the farm produce in the forthcoming session of the Parliament. The Bills, submitted by Parliamentarians Raju Shetti and...
More »The LIGht bearer of Bulumgavan: the 26-year-old who transformed a village -Jyoti Shelar
-The Hindu Anand Joshi, a rural development fellow under CM’s programme, helped bring State Transport buses, and electricity after 70 years to a remote village in Amravati Mumbai: Anand Joshi (26), an MBA from MIT, Pune open university is reverently referred to as khambewala saab in Bulumgavan village in Amravati district. He finds the tag both daunting and amusing: “They call me that because of the electric poles that stand in their...
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