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‘Lauta do PURAni pension’: The steady growth of Old Pension Scheme agitations across India -Jyoti Yadav

-ThePrint.in Starting with Vijay Kumar Bandhu’s initiative, demand for OPS has now become a key issue in UP, MP, Himachal, Andhra Pradesh & Jharkhand and features in the SP’s poll manifesto. New Delhi: Amongst the various poll promises covering all the party manifestos for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, the entry of one new item in the Samajwadi Party’s programme is testament to a longstanding demand.  It is the widespread call to reinstate...

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‘Suraksha’ plank finds particular resonance in Uttar Pradesh -JP Yadav

-The Telegraph For the better-off upper castes, it has acquired the context of the safety of their sisters and daughters Bareilly, Rampur: Sitting outside a small medicine-cum-stationery shop at Khirka village in Bareilly district, Rakesh Gangwar, Ramdas Kashyap and PURAnlal Gangwar unhesitatingly declare their support for the “phool” (lotus). Each lists the reasons almost in the same order, as though they had prepared beforehand for the question.   The top reason for all three —...

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A house of dreams -Shriya Mohan

-The Hindu Business Line A model rehabilitation project for 100 families of rescued bonded labourers kicks off in Tiruvannamalai, granting them dignity of shelter and livelihood * Ready to be inaugurated in the next few weeks, the neat rows of green and white houses... carry the smell of fresh paint and brimming hope of its 564 residents * The colony is the Tamil Nadu government’s attempt at creating a model rehabilitation village that...

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Sahitya Akademi award winning lecturer turns farm labourer

-PTI/ The Telegraph Navnath Gore, who received the Yuva PURAskar for young writers in 2018, is now working odd jobs to make ends meet after he lost his contract to the lockdown Pune: Till March, Navnath Gore was a lecturer in a college in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, but the lockdown took away his contract job and reduced him to a farm labourer. Gore, 32, a resident of Nigdi, a village in...

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If India starts acting on the yearly floods in Bihar and Assam, that would be true nationalism -Yogendra Yadav

-ThePrint.in Attention deficit of the public, policy dyslexia and lack of political will lie at the roots of the recurring tragedy of flooding in Assam and Bihar. It’s an annual affair. Every year the floods arrive, bring devastation. ‘Reliefs’ arrive, bring consolation. Nothing changes. Water recedes. Drowned for months, the land emerges, drained of life. Hordes of living skeletons teeter on this dead land to build a life again.” It could be this...

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