Indications are that many civilians were killed in the counterinsurgency operation In the early hours of Friday, about six hundred troopers from the Central Reserve Police Force and the Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) commando unit conducted an operation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district in which 18 tribal villagers were killed and six CRPF troopers injured. Two suspected Maoists were killed in Sukma in an unrelated incident the same day. As per the...
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Anti-Hindi stir, Ambedkar cartoons should go, says panel
-The Hindu An R.K. Laxman drawing, perceived as showing students in Tamil Nadu agitating against Hindi in 1965 in a poor light, is one of the 10 cartoons recommended for removal from NCERT textbooks by a committee. The cartoon on the anti-Hindi agitation, published in the Class XII Political Science book, angered political parties in Tamil Nadu, with the DMK demanding its removal. While recommending the removal of some “objectionable” cartoons, the six-member...
More »Diesel, LPG subsidy will have to go, says Rangarajan-Ananya Dutta
Pointing out that fiscal deficit was a cause of concern, C. Rangarajan, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, said on Friday that action on reducing fuel and fertilizer subsidies would be taken “as early as possible.” “I would not like to put a time FRAme, I can only say that action will be needed and therefore will be taken as early as possible,” he told journalists on...
More »Wanted: good cartoon guide-Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph A committee set up to go through cartoons used in NCERT textbooks in the wake of a controversy over one involving B.R. Ambedkar is learnt to have supported their use as learning tools but asked for guidelines to choose the right ones. The six-member panel headed by Sukhadeo Thorat, chairperson of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, yesterday submitted its report to Parvin Sinclair, director of the NCERT. A member...
More »Chinks in opposition might hasten Posco land acquisition-Dillip Satapathy
-The Business Standard When the anti-Posco brigade celebrated the seventh anniversary of their agitation against the mega steel venture of the South Korean behemoth at Dhinkia near Paradip in Odisha last week, the noise they made against the project was drowned by the murmurs of a split in their ranks. After fighting against the project for the last seven years, Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) seems to be disintegrating, with many of...
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