News Bits - 9 Feb 2015

    

1. Petrol Bombs hurled at Dhaka-Kolkata train
2. Manjhi says , will prove prove the majority.
3. 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.
4. 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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News Bits - 8 feb 2015

    

1. Trade across Loc Suspended after the J&K police arrested a truck driver from Pakistan for aleggedly smuggling in 305 packets of narcotics.
2. Despite high maternal mortality , India hopes to reduce to Total Fertility Rate to 2.1 by end of 12th Plan.
3. Veteran Marathi theatre artist and film actor Atmaram Bhende passed away.
4. LCA-NP2 , the fighter version of the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas being

The Hindu - News 8 Feb 2015

Support growing for Kasturirangan report

‘People misled by vested interests exploiting natural resources in excess’

The Pashchima Ghatta Samrakshana Horata Samithi and Jana Sangrama Parishad on Saturday termed the opposition to the implementation of the Kasturirangan Committee Report on Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) as efforts by vested interests to continue looting natural resources from the Western Ghat region.

K.V. Nagesh Angirasa of the samithi said that the implementation of the report would in no way affect the routine course of life, including agricultural and