-The Hindu Business Line A low turnout at the famous Puskhar fair highlights the declining interest in the once-popular profession of camel herding The Pushkar Fair, held annually in Rajasthan’s Ajmer, is known as one of the world’s largest cattle fairs. It also celebrates the age-old traditions of the pastoralist camel-herding Raika tribe. On November 4-12, more than 1,000 of the community’s camel herders arrived with their livestock at the fair. They...
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Expert panel bars release of Bhopal tragedy research findings -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Report on congenital deformities in children born to women exposed to the 1984 gas leak is INConclusive, says committee. An expert committee explicitly barred the publication of the findings of a research study that said babies born to women — who as children were exposed to the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal — were significantly more likely to have “congenital malformations” than those born to women unexposed to the gas. The...
More »The NRC is part of the BJP's attempt to redefine India's identity
-The Telegraph The Opposition’s feebleness at this moment of crisis for our secular, democratic founding prINCiples is deeply worrying Once the chariot starts rolling, it is difficult to stop it. The Union home minister’s announcement in Parliament last week that the National Register of Citizens will be carried out throughout the country, INCluding Assam in the ‘natural course of events’, rang with the confidence of a rolling chariot that can ignore all...
More »On NRC, Shah and Gogoi show a similar disregard for suffering of the vulnerable -Harsh Mander
-The Indian Express Justice Gogoi chose a moment, a few days before he remitted office, in a public function in Delhi, to vigorously defend the NRC in Assam. It is unusual for an INCumbent Chief Justice to publicly declare his views on highly politically fraught matters. The country today stands at the brink of catastrophic human suffering and injustice, if the government implements, nation-wide, the National Register of Citizens (NRC), as...
More »Bad loans under Mudra Kishore jump 107% in six months -Shyamlal Yadav
-The Indian Express 12 PSU banks data reveal smallest ticket size Shishu loans fare best. New Delhi: THE number and value of bad loan accounts in the Kishore category of the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) for a dozen public sector banks INCluding State Bank of India, Canara Bank and Bank of Baroda, have jumped 107 per cent and 71 per cent, respectively, as on September 30, 2019 compared with March...
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