-Rediff.com Born in Mumbai's infamous red-light district, Shweta Katti has won a scholarship to the Bard College, New York. This is her story. Shweta Katti is warming up to the media attention she's been receiving lately. She has had a long day but has agreed to meet me at a coffee shop for what must have been the nth interview she's giving in the last 48 hours. It is close to 10 in...
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Hunger deaths cast a cloud on Kerala district
-The Hindustan Times Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy said on Tuesday his government was expected to take a decision shortly on Attapadi, a malnutrition-afflicted tribal hamlet in Palakkad district below the Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats. According to the district health office of Palakkad, 14 malnutrition-related deaths have taken place in the past four months, but NGOs working with the tribals say more than 40 children died in the past...
More »Orissa to complete procuring land for Posco plant in two weeks
-Bloomberg The entire land could be handed over by June to Posco, which already has about 1,700 acres in its possession Mumbai: Orissa expects to complete procuring land needed forPosco's steel complex in less than two weeks as farmers relinquish their oppoSITion on the proposed $12 billion project. About 200 acres (81 hectares) out of the total 2,700 acres are left to be acquired from local residents, said Satya Kumar Mallick, the administrative...
More »Third member of family in suicide pact dies
-The Times of India ROHTAK: One more member of the Hisar dalitfamily who had attempted suicide on Monday died in hospital on Tuesday, taking the toll to three. The nine-year-old boy breathed his last early on Tuesday while undergoing treatment atPGIMS in Rohtak. Doctors said the condition of two others, including an 11-year-old boy and his father, was still critical. On Monday, the mother and sister of a rape victim had died...
More »West Bengal chit fund scam: Knives out for tainted Trinamool MPs
-The Times of India KOLKATA: The inferno triggered in a million homes by the Saradha meltdown has singed the ruling Trinamool Congress. The heat was palpable at an informal meeting of Trinamool MPs at Parliament's Central Hall on Tuesday when the knives were out against the tainted partymen who have harmed Didi's Ma-Mati-Manush image. With Sudipta Sen in custody, at least two heads in the Trinamool are set to roll, say party...
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