-The Hindu Business Line Launched in February after the BJP’s defeat in three states in the Hindi heartland, the Prime Minister’s ambitious scheme for farmers may help the party in its fight against the SP-BSP gathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh. Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Phulpur: Last month, Raj Narayan Rajbhar, a resident of Saimalpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency, had Rs 2,000 credited to his bank account under the Pradhan...
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Congress complaint on 'misuse' by PMO: EC seeks Niti Aayog reply -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express Last week, the Congress had approached the EC with an allegation that the PMO had used the NITI Aayog to collect information in advance about places where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to campaign. New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (EC) has sought NITI Aayog’s comments on the Congress’s allegation that the Government policy think-tank was misused by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for election purposes. A...
More »Polling over, Maharashtra govt scraps subsidy for milk producers
-The Tribune Mumbai: Within days of polling for the Lok Sabha elections coming to an end in Maharashtra, the state Government has quietly let a subsidy scheme for dairy farmers lapse. Under a scheme announced in July last year following protests by dairy farmers across the state, the Maharashtra Government announced a subsidy of Rs 5 per litre. Under a plan brokered by the central Government, dairies would pay the farmers a...
More »IIT Kharagpur professors behind life-saver shelters -Subhankar Chowdhury
-The Telegraph Shelters that can function as a a school or a vegetable market Kharagpur: Two IIT Kharagpur professors who have designed the shelters that saved thousands of lives after Cyclone Fani hit Odisha last Friday said the lessons of the 1999 supercyclone were the trigger behind their project. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya, professor of civil engineering department at the institute, and Gopal Chandra Mitra, a visiting professor at the department, took one-and-a-half years...
More »Cyclone Fani: Clamour for food grows in Odisha -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu Villagers run out of supplies they had stocked ahead of the cyclone BHUBANESWAR: Three days after the extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani hit Odisha coast, the State Government on Monday reached several villages blocked by uprooted trees and collapsed electrical poles for the first time to find people in dire need of water, food and polythene sheets. The famed marine drive road between Konark and Puri was cleared on Monday. When...
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