-MoneyLife.in Barely two months back, Right to Information (RTI) activist Bipin Agarwal, a resident of Motihari town of Bihar, was shot dead on 24 September 2021 in broad daylight on a busy road by two assailants astride a motorcycle. Last week, a young RTI activist, Avinash Jha, all of 23 years old, was brutally killed in Benipatti town of Madhubani district in Bihar. His half-burnt body was found on the side...
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Burnt body of Bihar missing journalist writing on ‘fake’ clinics found on highway: Report -Sohini Goswami
-Hindustan Times Two days before he disappeared, the Right to Information (RTI) activist had written a post on Facebook in which he mentioned such clinics. A 23-year-old journalist working on a scam involving medical clinics in Bihar’s Madhubani district was found dead days after he went missing. His burnt body was reportedly found tossed by the roadside near a village in the district. An NDTV article said Buddhinath Jha or Avinash Jha was...
More »Body Of Bihar Journalist, RTI Activist Found Burned, Tossed By Roadside -Manish Kumar
-NDTV.com CCTV footage shows Buddhinath Jha leaving home at 9.58 pm on Tuesday, wearing a yellow scarf around his neck; he walks past a police station and is not seen again Patna: The body of a 22-year-old journalist and RTI activist, who was kidnapped four days ago, was found on Friday evening - burned and tossed by the roadside - near a village in Bihar's Madhubani district. Buddhinath Jha, alias Avinash Jha, was...
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-Hindustan Times Plight of the migrants: Jobless labourers return home after demonetisation Twenty-three-year-old Avinash Kumar is planning to postpone his sister’s marriage. The money he had saved, working at a sweatshop in New Delhi’s Mongolpuri, is all but gone. Kumar lost his job in about two weeks from the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, in a move that he termed as the biggest-ever...
More »Saving agriculture from weather woes -Divya Pandey and Avinash Kishore
-Livemint.com The agriculture sector continues to be at risk from climate variability, be it drought or excessive rainfall Unseasonal rains and hailstorms in March and April caused severe damage to more than 10 million hectares of wheat, mustard, potato and other rabi crops. Independent estimates project damages to be as high as Rs.65,000 crore. In Haryana alone, standing crops in over 1.7 million hectares of land were affected. Unexpected rainfall late...
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