-The Hindustan Times Patna: Arjun Singh, 48, lost his father and wife in quick succession, in 2004 and 2005. Then followed a long spell of depression and "utter loneliness", until in 2007 a sparrow chick that had fallen from a tree in the courtyard of his house transformed his life for good. He tended to the bird for a few days. It recovered and flew off, kicking off a passionate association...
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No toilet? Can’t contest Bihar local body polls, Nitish Kumar says -Aditya Vaibhav
-The Times of India PATNA: Those not having a toilet in their home will not be allowed to contest panchayat or urban local body elections in Bihar. Announcing this at a World Toilet Day function on Tuesday, chief minister Nitish Kumar said the state government will bring the necessary amendments to the Bihar Panchayati Raj Act and other statutes governing the elections of urban bodies to raise public awareness about the benefits...
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-The Asian Age Reserve Bank deputy governor K.C. Chakraborty has finally set the record straight on what is well known in left-wing development circles: that Corporate India's loans waived by banks are more (over Rs. 1 lakh crore in the past 13 years) than farm loans to the tune of Rs. 60,000 crores written off under the Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme. More revealing is that medium and large units have...
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-The Hindustan Times The current electoral discourse shows an amazing disconnect with the actual reality of the deteriorating livelihood conditions of our people. The other day, the BJP PM aspirant thundered in Bangalore that the BJP seeks to create confidence and not fear among the people. The 2002 Gujarat communal pogrom makes this sound incredulous. There is nothing in the BJP's campaign pitch that offers any solution or a methodology for...
More »Muzaffarnagar riots: For Rs 5 lakh, 900 families give up their right to return home -Pritha Chatterjee
-The Indian Express Muzaffarnagar: With winter setting in, and the conditions in relief camps fast deteriorating, over 900 displaced families in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts have signed affidavits stating that they will not return to their villages, in return for a compensation of Rs 5 lakh from the state government. "Main aur mere parivar ke sadasya apne gram mein hui hinsatmak ghatnaon se bhayakant hokar gaon va ghar chhodkar aaye hain, tatha...
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