-The Hindu Bangalore: The government has identified 15 basic amenities to enhance quality of life in villages. It has asked gram panchayats (GPs) to make all these facilities available to the people. These include drinking water, playgrounds and open-air theatres. The move is aimed at arresting the migration of rural people towards urban areas. In a circular issued last week, the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Department said of the 6.11...
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There is class bias in awarding death penalty -Harsh Mander
-The Hindustan Times Last winter, two men were hanged to death in India's jails, indicted for crimes of terror. On August 8, another man, Maganlal Barela- a little-known tribal cultivator, charged with killing his five little daughters - was scheduled to hang in the Jabalpur Central Jail. Human rights lawyers chanced to read of his hanging in an online news item the evening before his execution was fixed, and rushed to meet...
More »After acquittals, fear haunts Dalit hamlet -Rahi Gaikwad
-The Hindu ‘They are free and we are trapped,' says a resident, as many villagers share her fear that they may be targeted again LAXMANPUR BATHE (BIHAR): On Wednesday night, Baudh Paswan kept tossing and turning in bed, his appetite and sleep gone. "I feel they will come back again," he murmured. As they did on the night of December 1, 1997 and began a killing spree. Armed with firearms and swords, members...
More »Vrindavan widows back in City of Joy -Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Heads turned at Terminal 3 in Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport as a group of 50-odd elderly women entered the lobby to board a flight to Kolkata. Heads turned at Terminal 3 in Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport as a group of 50-odd elderly women entered the lobby to board a flight to Kolkata. Even as personnel and passengers wondered who these women - most of them dressed in crisp white...
More »Direct cash transfers: 'The previous system was so much more convenient' -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express Rajasthan/ Delhi: Three states where the UPA govt has rolled out direct cash transfers go to polls later this year. On the ground, the scheme has not quite turned out the game-changer the government reckoned it would. A frail Gori Sahaab, 90, instructs his son to pour mustard oil into a tiny diya in his one-room house. He once used a kerosene lamp but has stopped buying that fuel....
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