-News18.com The army of volunteers, including ministers, electricians, plumbers, snake catchers, bureaucrats and others, will camp for the next three days in Kuttanad, the first area to be hit by the floods that have killed more than 300 people. Alapuzha: It’s not often that one sees Kerala’s khadar-clad ministers rack up their mundus, roll up their sleeves and get down to some thorough scrubbing. But the flood-ravaged state has forced every resident,...
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Demonetisation led to 1% drop in GDP, says parliamentary report; BJP bans it
-MirrorNowNews.com The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on Tuesday stalled a parliamentary report which slammed demonetisation. The report mentioned that demonetisation led to a drop of one per cent in the country's GDP. New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on Tuesday stalled the note ban report which slammed the incumbent government's decision of demonetising Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes with effect from November 8, 2016. The report mentioned...
More »We have to sell land & homes, start anew: Why Jewar farmers insist on a 'fair price' -Shafaque Alam
-The Times of India JEWAR: There’s no storm blowing around Bhagwan Singh. Spread out on a charpoy in his spacious two-storey house, Singh’s manner mirrors the somnolence of this August afternoon. He is in no rush; not to talk, not to go anywhere. And certainly not to sell his land. Singh is headman of Rohi, the village that virtually holds the veto on land acquisition for the UP government’s prestige project —Jewar...
More »Nearly all Ganga water in UP-Bengal stretch unfit for drinking, bathing
-PTI The NGT has directed the National Mission for Clean Ganga to install display boards at a gap of 100 km to indicate whether the water was fit for bathing or drinking New Delhi: Most of the Ganga river water in the Uttar Pradesh-West Bengal stretch is unfit for drinking and bathing, a map released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has indicated. The National Green Tribunal last month directed the National...
More »Checkpoints at Mewat: Farmers complain of extortion in the name of cow protection -Nidhi Sharma
-The Economic Times NUH/ ALWAR/ JAIPUR: Thirty-five year old Munna is sipping his midmorning cup of tea with his uncle Ali Mohammed at Sharma dhaba. This resident of Doha village in Nuh district of Haryana has just wrapped up the day at Jaipur’s weekly Hatwara pashu mela (cattle fair) buying 10 buffaloes for himself. He has reason to be vigilant as he prepares for the evening journey across the border. “We have...
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