A Branch Postmaster of Juna village in Bhuj taluka of Kutch and two others were booked for cheating on Friday after financial irregularities of Rs 83 lakh surfaced under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The three were identified as Postmaster Suleman Sama and his two accomplices, Sajkur Sale and Ibrahim Vija. Police said they were trying to gather more information about Sale and Vija. They were booked under sections...
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Weeping wombs of Kasaragod by Jeemon Jacob
PREGNANT WOMEN in Kasargod district are fighting the endosulfan tragedy in their own way — by opting for abortion. A sacrifice conducted in silence, even a 10-year campaign against the chemical has not yet convinced the government to ban its use. Without the intervention of the welfare state, they are now released from the fear of death and chronic disease. They have seen enough. They have lost many in a short...
More »SC refuses to take up 'premature' PILs on Lokpal Bill panel
The Supreme Court today refused to go into a batch of PILs challenging constitutional validity of the notification on composition of a committee to draft the Jan Lokpal bill, saying the petitions were "premature". A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia Posted the matter for hearing in July. The bench said, "The petitions are premature and can't be taken as the Lokpal Bill was yet to be passed." "It is still...
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Do you know that the highest number of corruption cases are registered in Maharashtra (4566) and the lowest in West Bengal (only 9) between 2000 and 2009? Do you also want to know how much property has been recovered from the corrupt in different states of India in the past ten years? But how does one systematically track corruption? How to get details of the number of cases going on...
More »See Any Girl Out Here? by Neha Bhatt
They have all been killed quietly, leaving Devda just with 20 girls compared to 300 boys Avon Kanwar lives in fear. She is scared her food may be poisoned. She is afraid to sleep at night because she suspects she may be strangled. Avon, eight years old, is convinced her parents will kill her. “I don’t know where she hears such things,”says her father Sangh Singh, “We stopped killing girls...
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