-Livemint.com The share of WhatsApp users in rural India has doubled over the past year amid declining data costs and increasing internet usage, shows survey data New Delhi: The recent incidents of mob violence and lynchings reported across the country have THRown the spotlight on WhatsApp, the messaging platform used to spread rumours against the victims. But how widespread is the use of WhatsApp in the country today? Or, how far can the...
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Who Is Accountable for Starvation Deaths?
-Economic and Political Weekly Denial of social security facilities is to blame in cases of alleged starvation deaths. The distressing news of THRee young girls dying of starvation in the heart of New Delhi last week raises a number of questions; not only on the failure of the state to protect its citizens from hunger 70 years after independence but also on the development model that India seems to be following. Mansi,...
More »Monsoon slips, crops not hit
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The 2018 monsoon rainfall may slip slightly below the normal THReshold of 96 per cent of the average, the national weather agency indicated on Friday, but predicted that the rainfall distribution during August and September would be "favourable" for farm operations. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted that rainfall during the second half of the four-month rainy season would be 95 per cent of the average, with a...
More »Hollowed out
-The Telegraph Hunger kills. In India, it does so with alarming frequency. THRee girls aged eight, four and two died in the national capital last week; the autopsy showed that their stomach and bowels were "absolutely empty". This was in spite of the fact that the oldest girl at least went to school and should have been receiving mid-day meals. The blame, as usual, was at first apportioned to exclusion. The...
More »Kolkata's 200-year-old archives to the rescue of NRC-hit residents -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Scores of visitors from Assam are looking for the names of the earlier generations in the electoral rolls from 1952 to 1971; the State archives issues certified copies Kolkata: Mintu Das, a Guwahati-based businessman, could not find the names of THRee members of his family on July 30 when the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam. In the past two days, Mr. Das...
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