-Outlook The faecal matter hits the rotary blades, politically-but we're still staring at a sanitation disaster "Indians defecate everywhere. They defecate mostly besides the railway tracks. But they also defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the hills; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover." -V.S. Naipaul An Area of Darkness, 1964 Not...
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Cyclone Phailin: Panic buying in Odisha sends prices soaring -Binita Jaiswal
-The Times of India CUTTACK/BHUBANESWAR: Thousands of twin city dwellers on Friday made a beeline for shops to stock up on vegetables and dry food. The mad rush led to a steep rise in prices of chura (flattened rice ), potatoes and candles. Soon they vanished from the market. "I bought a kg of chura for Rs 28. In the evening the shopkeeper hiked the rate to Rs 45 a kg. I...
More »Adivasis and the New Land AcquiSITion Act-Chitrangada Choudhury
-Economic and Political Weekly Much work remains to be done if the new Land AcquiSITion, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act has to mark a meaningful shift for India's adivasi communities. Chitrangada Choudhury (chitrangada@csds.in) Chitrangada Choudhury (chitrangada@csds.in) is a multimedia journalist and researcher, and currently with the Publics and Policies program at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. Among the worst excesses committed in India's six decade-old democracy, the forcible displacment...
More »Centre bins uniform teacher pay plea
-The Telegraph The human resource development ministry today rejected a demand by two state education ministers that the Centre frame a national policy prescribing a uniform salary structure for schoolteachers in states and rules for recruiting them. At a meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education, the highest advisory body on education that has state education ministers as members, Chhattisgarh's Brijmohana Agrawal and Bihar's P.K. Shahi said the HRD ministry should...
More »Punch in recipient's Aadhaar number to transfer funds
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: Bank account holders can now send money to any individual through mobile banking by merely entering the recipient's Aadhaar number. National Payments Corporation of India, which launched Aadhaar-based remittances on Wednesday, sees its use in micro-payments such as taxi fares and small purchases. The transfers can be done using the most basic phones through SMS for small amounts or through mobile banking apps for amounts over Rs...
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