-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Here's a good note on which to start the New Year. Fewer people were killed in Delhi in 2013. The number of murders, a prime indicator of the crime SITuation in a city, dropped. So did the number of accidents, Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi announced in a press conference on Friday. A total of 487 people were murdered in the city last year, compared...
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100 New Night Shelters to be Opened Soon: Sisodia
-Outlook New Delhi: Delhi government today announced that it would be opening 100 new night shelters across the city over the next few days with a view to providing relief to the homeless from the biting cold. Talking about the proposed move, Urban Development Minister Manish Sisodia said the SDMs who had been asked to map the homeless in the city had found 4,018 persons sleeping in the open at 212 locations. "At...
More »Jayanthi Natarajan line reversed, Moily and Pawar will ask SC to allow GM trials -Ravish Tiwari and Anubhuti Vishnoi
-The Indian Express Environment Minister Veerappa Moily and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar are learnt to have agreed that a joint affidavit should be filed in the Supreme Court, asking that field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops be allowed, albeit with "stringent conditions". The line taken by Moily, who met Pawar on Thursday to discuss the government's poSITion on GM field trials, is at variance with the majority opinion of the court-appointed...
More »Brutalised migrants of western Odisha-Pramathesh Ambasta
-The Hindu The chopping off of the palms of two migrant workers is a wake-up call The gruesome incident of the chopping off of the palms of two migrant labourers of Kalahandi district of western Odisha by the labour contractor mafia in December 2013 should serve as a wake-up call. The incident highlights the ruthless extent to which the mafia can go to meet its ends and brings home the fact that...
More »From displacement to disappearance-Farah Naqvi
-The Hindu Camp after camp has been forced to disappear in Muzaffarnagar by the official authorities. The people displaced by the communal riots are now in small shanty settlements, 10 tents here, another 10 tents half a kilometre down the road On December 26, 2013, a large group of viSITors entered the Loi relief camp in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh. Loi camp - a festering sea of displaced and despairing humanity, with...
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