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December 20, 2016
What if people remain untreated just because ‘cashless’ situation comes in way?
Patients waiting outside AIIMS
When patients from all over India fail to get a healthy treatment, All India Institute of Medical Science, Delhi (AIIMS) always comes to rescue. But what if people remain untreated just because ‘cashless’ situation comes in way?
Shiv Kumar Paswan,...
December 19, 2016
A post dated bearer cheque passes through at least three if not six hands, as a promissory note even buying silk thread before reaching the bank
Resham Silk Thread worth hundreds of thousands was bought between November 8 and 15, pushing the price up by a thousand rupees per kilo, as producers and businesses made a practical decision to change cash for silk
There’s a stunned paralysis...
December 19, 2016
I was taken to nearby jungle and raped for 36 hours by the six, says victim.
The incident took place in Amla in Baitul district. (Representational image)
Bhopal: A tribal girl in a Madhya Pradesh district was allegedly gang raped by a local BJP leader and his five accomplices for refusing to withdraw a molestation case filed against him by her, police said. The incident took place...
December 19, 2016
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के नोटबंदी फैसले का 1 महीने का वक़्त गुज़र चुका है। नोटबंदी के फैसले के बाद से जनता की परेशानियां अभी तक कम होने का नाम नहीं ले रही हैं।
Image: Teesta Setalvad
पीएम मोदी का संसदीय क्षेत्र वाराणसी वह भी नोटबंदी की चपेट में है। कैश की किल्लत ने बुनकरों को नए काम की तलाश में दूसरे शहरों की तरफ़ पलायन करने के लिए मजबूर कर दिया है।
कैश का संकट झेल रहे वाराणसी के...
December 19, 2016
As demonetisation woes deepen, an Osmanabad bank is doing little to recover Rs 352 crores owed by two sugar factories, but is threatening 20,000 farmers.
Image: P Sainath
The bank has “decided to use Gandhigiri to try and recover the loans [from you]. For this the bank has decided to do one of the following:
1) Put up a tent opposite your house to protest
2) Make use of a...
December 18, 2016
Photo Credit: Morung Express
PTI Report: In the wake of heightened tension and violence, parts of Manipur capital Imphal were today brought under indefinite curfew and mobile internet services were snapped at various places to prevent spread of rumours over an alleged attack on a church. The curfew was imposed this noon and covers Porompat and Sawombung subdivisions of Imphal East district,...
December 18, 2016
A report by India Samvad states that just ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Varanasi on December 22, RBI has delivered a truckload of new currency in the region
Only yesterday Sabrangindia had carried an image story showing the pathetically long queues outside in various parts of Varanasi
Picture:Teesta Setalvad
After the scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency...
December 18, 2016
Radhika Vemula was manhandled by the Delhi Police in February 2016 even as then MHRD Minister, Smriti Irani made a speech dis-regarding
the pain of the Dalit students struggle in Parliament
Ambedkarite students of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have in a detailed and strongly worded memorandum to the President of India, substantiated by 26 authenticated annexures, demanded that he...
December 17, 2016
Mirjapur and Indore (Madhya Pradesh): As the sun rose in the morning sky, piles of white chrysanthemums awaited Keshu Singh Patel at his 2.5-acre farm in Mirjapur, a village in western Madhya Pradesh. Everyday in the winter, the short, spry, balding 55-year-old takes about 70 kg of flowers, tied to his bike, to sell in the flower market 15 km away.
Keshu Singh Patel, a flower and vegetable...
December 16, 2016
JNUSU general secretary Satarupa Chakrabarty said signatures would be collected till students return to campus after their holidays in January, following which the protest would be intensified
Just days after the JNU administration installed iron grills at Freedom Square, students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) through tit’s union, the JNUSU, have begun collecting...