-PTI The apex court asked the CBI director to constitute a team of officers to investigate the cases of extra-judicial killing in Manipur. The Supreme Court on Friday directed a probe by the CBI into the alleged extra-judicial killings by the Army, the Assam Rifles and the Manipur Police in the insurgency—hit State. A Bench of Justices M.B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit asked the CBI director to appoint a team of officers to...
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Amma canteens set to dwindle -Aloysius Xavier Lopez
-The Hindu Fund-starved civic body mulls move Chennai: Owing to a severe fund crunch, the Chennai Corporation is now exploring the possibility of reducing the number of Amma canteens in the city. The civic body, which is unable to settle bills of contractors for completed infrastructure projects worth ?700 crore, is likely to reduce the number of canteens from 407 to 200. However, the decision to close many of these canteens has been...
More »1.5 Million Jobs Lost During FIRst Four Months of 2017, Says CMIE
-TheWire.in While this is likely a side-effect of demonetisation, more research is needed to unpack how India’s unemployment rate fell in January-April 2017. New Delhi: The Modi government’s demonetisation decision may have resulted in the loss of roughly 1.5 million jobs, according to new survey data put out by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). CMIE’s data is based on the result of consecutive waves of household surveys performed from January 2016...
More »Food and farming: Two futures -Vandana Shiva
-Deccan Chronicle The slogan was that there would never again be scarcity of food because we can now make “bread from air”. There are two distinct futures of food and farming. One leads to a dead end. A dead planet: poisons and chemical monocultures spreading; farmers committing suicide due to debt for seeds and chemicals; children dying due to lack of food; people dying because of chronic diseases spreading due to nutritionally empty, toxic...
More »From manual scavenger to professor, the journey of Kaushal Panwar -Ashwaq Masoodi
-Livemint.com Despite facing discrimination at every step, Kaushal Panwar managed to achieve her dreams. But she says her identity, for people around her, is still that of a Dalit. It’s like hitting a brick wall with bare fists. You could just give up, thinking you’ll make no more than a scratch. Or you could smash through one day, with the help of a chalk and a slate. When the little Dalit girl FIRst...
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