-TheWire.in When conscientious and well-meaning citizens are attacked for "acting rightly", is the government "acting rightly" by not doing enough to safeguard them? Yet another Right to Information (RTI) activist in Gujarat has paid with his life for demanding transparency. On March 9, Nanjibhai Sondarva (35), a resident of Manekvada village in Kotda Sangani taluka of Rajkot district, was allegedly clubbed to death by six people. The deceased’s father has claimed that...
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NITI Aayog begins discussions on MSP model; comes out with 3 options
-The Hindu Business Line To be finalised by the end of this month New delhi: The NITI-Aayog has initiated discussions on putting in place a system to fix minimum support price (MSP) for different crops. A consultation meeting to discuss various options was held on Friday chaired by the NITI-Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar. The move comes following an announcement in the Budget by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the Aayog will work with States...
More »Why crop prices are falling despite higher MSP, stiffer import tariffs -Rajalakshmi Nirmal
-The Hindu Business Line Surge in production of most crops; demand-supply equation driving prices The Centre’s moves to stop domestic market prices of agri commodities from falling, be it by increasing the minimum support price (MSP), hiking import duty or levying a minimum import price (as in the case of pepper), have not been effective. While market prices do go up in a knee-jerk reaction following the news, they soon revert to...
More »NCRB to collate data on online child sexual abuse -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu New delhi: In a first, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has started collating data on online child sexual abuse in the country. Till now no repository of such crimes was available at the national level. The move comes after a parliamentary standing committee on home affairs pulled up officials for not reporting the cases. The panel, headed by senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, said in its report that they...
More »1.5 lakh trains delayed in last 11 months -Siddharth Prabhakar
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Ever wondered how many passenger trains arrive late every day in the country? Data tabled by the ministry of railways in Parliament on Friday shows that between April 2017 and February 2018, 1.48 lakh trains, or 450 trains a day, arrived late at the destination station. The worst performers on the punctuality benchmark are mail and express trains, with 75,880 arriving late during the period. The second...
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