From No. 2 in the last three years, Bengal has crawled to No. 1 — in the number of rape complaints in the country. The state that was once regarded one of the safest for women has recorded 3,029 rape cases till October this year, displacing Madhya Pradesh that had the highest number in the past three years. According to provisional data being compiled by the women and child development ministry, Bengal...

Farmers in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to sack Vilasrao Deshmukh as Union Heavy Industries Minister, after the Supreme Court ruled he misused his authority to protect a Congress legislator's money-lender father who charge exorbitant interest rates. "Local legislators are getting police protection with the help of top leaders and are exploiting the debt-trapped farmers who are committing suicide," Kishor Tiwari, president of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti,...

Indian Centre for Islamic Finance delegation makes presentation at Yojana Bhavan The Indian Centre for Islamic Finance (ICIF) has made out a strong case before Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council member V. S. Vyas for introducing interest-free banking in the country at the earliest to ensure “inclusive growth with innovation” in accordance with the recommendations of the Planning Commission's Raghuram Rajan Committee. An ICIF delegation from New Delhi, led by its general...

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday submitted the Working Group on Agriculture Production report to Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi. It is to mention that Indian Prime Minster on April 8, 2010 constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under the chairmanship of the Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Bihar and West Bengal as members to recommend strategies and action plan...

A Maharashtra district judge is employed under a key central government job scheme meant for the poorest of the poor in Jukkal Mandal of Nizamabad district in Andhra Pradesh. Judge Vijayrao Patel's employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) reflects the rampant corruption in the widely-publicized national job guarantee programme for the village poor. Patel, a Sholapur district judge, has an MNREGS job card (ID no 09011011038) issued...