Thursday, May 31, 2012
Farmers dump wheat in cremation ground
Two good monsoons have ensured a bumper wheat harvest in Rajasthan, but it has also become a problem of plenty for the state as the government has no place to store the excess food grain. In Ganga Nagar in the state, the local Panchayat has come up with a unique idea. It's allowing farmers to dump the wheat at the local cremation ground till it's sold and the farmers are not complaining.
Battling the odds, shopkeeper's son makes it to IIT
18-year-old Rakesh Ranjan Nayak, son of a smalltime village shopkeeper in a nondescript village near Sarang-gad in Odisha's Kandhamal district, has made it really big. He's the state topper and ranked 154th in the national level IIT-JEE and 18 in the list of OBC category students. Rakesh wants to study electrical engineering in IIT Mumbai.
10-hour power cuts in Gurgaon, Millenium City
For the last two months, electricity supply in Gurgaon has been hit badly, and long hours of power cuts are the norm. Gurgaon demands 1000 MW power every day, but is getting just 700 MW per day, leaving the city powerless for 8 to 12 hours every day. No power means no water and leaving the Millennium City not only in the dark but grappling with one of its worst ever water crisis.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
वाह! 60 साल से यहां नहीं पहुंची सरकार
छत्तीसगढ़ के आदिवासी इलाके को देश की आजादी के 60 साल बीत जाने के बाद भी आज तक किसी भी व्यक्ति तक सरकार का एक भी मुलाज़िम नहीं पहुंचा है। इस आदिवासी प्रजाति को मुड़िया कहते हैं।
'We don't even have money to buy poison', say debt ridden farmers in Vid...
The drought-like situation for the past three years in Maharashtra's Vidarbha district has resulted in poor harvests. Coupled with ineffective government help and low cotton prices, the unending narrative of distressed farmers killing themselves continues.
Poverty through the prism of stats: 60% rural folk live on less than Rs 35
A new survey by the National Sample Survey Office for the year 2009 -10 has revealed that more than 60 per cent of the population in rural India lives on less than Rs 35 a day, while the same number of people in urban India live on less than Rs 66 a day. Activists claim these numbers have exposed the lopsided development in the country and highlighted the need for urgent action.
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