-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Government transport in Haryana, Karnataka and Telangana, industrial areas in the National Capital region, hotels in Himachal Pradesh and banks and insurance offices across India may not function on Friday as central trade unions will hit the streets for a general strike. Last year, the trade union’s strike saw an estimated 15 crore workers take the day off. “This year we expect the figures to be higher,” said...
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Four minors are raped every day, only 1 in every 3 accused convicted -Aloke Tikku
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Fewer children were brutalised in 2015 than 2014. And yet, 451 girls were raped before they could celebRATe their sixth birthday, and another 1,151 before their twelfth. That means a girl, not old enough to begin primary school, and three others yet to enter their teens, were raped every day in 2015. Four out of every 10 victims below the age of 12 were either in Maharashtra (365...
More »Harvesting Solar - in fields! -Ashok Gulati, Stuti Manchanda & Rakesh Kacker
-The Indian Express Farmers can install solar panels on their fields that can geneRATe income in addition to regular crop agriculture. Of its several new initiatives, the Narendra Modi government has set out at least two very ambitious targets, which are also quantifiable. One is achieving 100 giga-watts (GW) of solar power geneRATion capacity by the year 2022. The other is doubling farmers’ income — presumably in real terms — also by 2022,...
More »Muslims least, Jains most liteRATe: Census
-PTI Muslims have the highest number of illiteRATes — nearly 43 percent of their population — while Jains have the highest number of liteRATes among India’s religious communities with over 86 percent of them educated. According to the Census 2011 data, Jains have just 13.57 percent illiteRATes aged seven and above among all communities. The census has taken those between 0 and 6 years as illiteRATe. Muslims have the highest percentage of illiteRATes aged...
More »Agrarian distress: Farmer suicides and the collapse of coopeRATive credit institutions -Partha SaRAThi Biswas
-The Indian Express The incidence of farmers taking their own lives is higher in regions where coopeRATive banks are the weakest. Nanded (Maharashtra): The verdant soyabean fields at Digras today are a far cry from the barren landscape they presented only a few months ago. But for residents of this village in Ardhapur taluka of Nanded district, the memories of drought in three out of the last four years will not fade...
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