Patna (Bihar): Women farmers and their supporters from various states in Eastern India came together at Navjyoti Niketan, Patna to voice their concerns, share their stories, and call attention to the fact that women’s contribution in farming is largely ignored. They came together under the banner of Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM). The issues being […]
Durgapur/New Delhi, Feb 12: A new domestic airline is taking shape. Zoom Air is set to … well zoom this month. Taking wings, Zoom Air today flew its inaugural flight from the national capital and will start commercial operations from February 15. The CRJ 200 LR plane landed at the Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport, Durgapur, […]
Bangalore: Indian Space Research Organisation’s workhorse PSLV will carry a record 104 satellites in a single mission on February 15 from the space centre at Sriharikota Andhra Pradesh, according to a PTI report. “PSLV-C37/Cartosat-2 Series Satellite Mission is scheduled to be launched on February 15, 2017 at 9.28 hours IST from SDSC SHAR Sriharikota,” ISRO said. […]
Panaji (Goa): Researchers from across the country met in Visakhapatnam to deliberate on the recent advances and studies conducted on beach erosion with special focus on Andhra Pradesh. The workshop on ‘Recent Advances and Future Studies on the Coastal Processes and Beach Erosion’, with a special emphasis on Andhra coast, was organised on Wednesday (Feb […]
New Delhi: The Congress and other opposition parties supported a bill, under which specified industrial units will have to pay salaries and wages to workers through cheques or by electronic transfer to their bank accounts, and facilitated its passing in the Lok Sabha (Feb 7). “The initiative is aimed at promoting the welfare of workers,” […]
New Delhi: Most middle income tax-payers have welcomed the Union Budget proposals announced February 1, though opposition parties bicker over the fine print. The big news is that donations to political parties will become more transparent. In a pre-poll Budget aimed at softening the demonetisation blow, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley halved the basic income tax […]
More than 50 orphaned children (after their farmer parents committed suicide due to the agrarian distress) have been touring the length and breadth of Maharashtra, appealing to people not to take the ‘drastic step’. The children are inmates of `Adhartirth Ashram’, set up by Trimbakrao Gaikwad at Tupadevi in Trimbakeshwar tehsil of Nashik district. The […]
The harvest festivals are on, and of course, every harvest festival is part of the celebration of the eco-system: Pongal, Sankranti, Bihu … all celebrated around 14-15 January. In Patna, at the Taru Mitra Bio reserve, students from Don Bosco, St. Joseph’s, May Flower, A.N College and St. Xavier’s College congregated under the sprawling Kamroop […]
Petrol pump owners late on Jan 8 night deferred till January 13 their decision to not accept credit and debit card payments for fuel sales after banks put off the move to levy the transaction (MDR) charge. To promote cash-less transactions, the government had waived the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on fuel purchase post demonetisation […]
India isn’t the only country that faces protests over China’s activities in the geopolitical arena. This week there were reports of Several people injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and industrial zone.(5 Jan) The locals were protesting their eviction to accommodate an industrial zone for Chinese […]
Melbourne: The Government of Australia has advised its citizens travelling to India to not to bank heavily on cash, even 100 dollar notes! It advised Aussie tourists to use electronic payments. It said that some visitors are facing difficulties in exchanging 100 dollar notes in India after demonetisation. In the latest advisory issued yesterday, Department […]
Hazaribagh, Jharkhand: Prem Kumar, a quack, posing as a surgeon is finally arrested. He evaded arrest for a month, after his pregnant patient bled to death on December 5, 2016. He was arrested at night near his so-called nursing home and packed off to Hazaribagh central jail (Jan 4). Kumar had a thriving practice at […]
