Feb 9, 2015
News Bits - 9 Feb 2015
- Petrol Bombs hurled at Dhaka-Kolkata train
- Manjhi says , will prove prove the majority.
- Shortly after being chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith award on Friday, Mr. Nemade dismissed the works of Mr. Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul as “pandering to the West.” Mr. Rushdie’s works after Midnight’s Children lacked literary merit.
- Nearly 20 nations, including India, will deploy a global calculator, similar to those launched in London and Beijing last week, to
[Ed] For a stitch in time
Every year, hundreds of precious lives are being lost to the H1N1 influenza, described by medical experts as just another preventable and curable form of seasonal flu. This year, the toll has already crossed the 200-mark, and over 2,500 people are being treated in hospitals and in homes. Rajasthan, Telangana, Gujarat and Maharashtra are bearing the brunt of the pandemic. In Rajasthan alone, 85 people have died — the highest in the country so far. Last year, 937 cases of swine flu,
[Ed] Silence is not an option
Two successive statements by U.S. President Barack Obama within a span of nine days on the shrinking religious tolerance in India have created some flutter. In the first instance, as he wound up his India visit on January 27, Mr. Obama underscored the point that countries that are divided within along religious lines cannot progress; in the second one, on February 5, he said the acts of religious intolerance that are being reported in India would have shocked
The Hindu News - 9 Feb 2015
Telangana seeks sector-centric fund allocation at NITI meet
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has sought a change of policy in the allocation of funds by the Centre from the existing scheme-specific to sector-centric at the first meeting of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Sunday.
Mr. Rao sought the change by explaining that the scheme-specific fund allocation was leading to discrimination in availing Central funds
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