-The Hindu From the outside, it is just one of those private schools tucked away in an obscure corner that holds out the proMISe of convent-education, but once you are inside the poorly-lit building -- known as House No.16 -- in South-West Delhi's Bijwasan, you are confronted by the presence of countless buzzing flies and a pervading nauseating stench. This school with cramped classrooms and no students is home to grown...
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Illusory rights -Venkitesh Ramakrishnan and Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
-Frontline PESA, which is seen as an enabling law for tribal self-governance, is violated brazenly by both the Union government and State governments in the name of development. SINCE October 2012, the Ministry of Rural Development of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has apparently been engaged in an exercise to evolve a "National Land Reforms Policy". Over these months, the Ministry wrote to various State governments, highlighting the importance of...
More »Bengal’s Bonzi shell cracks up -Sambit Saha
-The Telegraph The "Bonzi" edifice, Bengal's version of the fraudulent Ponzi scheme that conned US investors a century ago, is shaking at its foundations. The panic set off by Saradha defaulting on payments has spread to similar schemes run by other firms and triggered protests and attacks on company offices in several parts of the state. These schemes' mostly small-time rural investors have begun to panic about the safety of their hard-earned...
More »Police report junks Trinamool claims on violence -Madhuparna Das
-The Indian Express A report prepared by West Bengal Police on political violence in the aftermath of the April 9 heckling of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by SFI supporters in Delhi said as many as 149 CPM party offices were ransacked and damaged by "Trinamool Congress supporters and followers". The report was submitted to the Home Department, which is headed by Banerjee, last week. The report refutes claims made by Trinamool Congress ministers...
More »Chit-fund scam: Saradha agents lay siege to Mamata house -Saibal Sen & Caesar Mandal
-The Times of India KOLKATA: Bengal is sitting on a powder keg. And the fuse could well have been lit on Friday as a 33-year-old agent of Saradha Group, a chit fund company that has gone bust, committed suicide being unable to pay his depositors while over 3,000 agents laid siege to chief minister Mamata Banerjee's residence in protest against the lockdown. The turn of events has triggered fears of a repeat...
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