As we prepare to celebrate India’s 63rd birthday on August 15, we asked readers to identify the top five problem areas that India needs to set right immediately.
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KOLKATA // Millions of tonnes of food grain have been rotting in India every year and now the government has finally been forced to act by the country’s highest court.
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The US State Department will send Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry to Pakistan next week to assess the damage from the country’s flood disaster.
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Patna, Aug 12 (PTI): Tourism has been given industry status in Bihar and the government has initiated a number of measures to woo visitors, particularly from Buddhist countries, state Minister for Tourism Ram Pravesh Rai said today. The plan outlay for tourism development was increased from the meagre Rs 7.43 crore during the erstwhile [...]
Read More...Patna, Aug 12 (PTI): The Bihar government is building state-of-the-art e-Kisan Bhawan at block level to extend benefits of Information Technology (IT) to the agriculture sector of the state. Construction work of e-Kisan Bhawan is in progress in 324 blocks out of the total 534 blocks in the state, Agriculture minister Renu Kumari told [...]
Read More...Aug 13 (The Hindu): Complaints have reached the Ministry of Minority Affairs (MMA) that as in Andhra Pradesh, in Bihar too, banks have refused to allow tens of thousands of Muslim students to open scholarship accounts. On July 28, the MMA wrote to all State Chief Secretaries directing them to facilitate the opening of [...]
Read More...Aug 13 (The Asian Age): In his quest for forming the right caste equations in a politically-charged society in Bihar right before the Assembly polls, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is working hard to woo the state’s upper castes to defeat the ruling JD(U)-BJP, whose upper caste vote base is believed to be waning. [...]
Read More...Aug 13 (India Today): Top politicos in Bihar have not taken kindly to the appearance of Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari of Delhi’s Jama Masjid at a recent function to launch a political outfit. The Shahi Imam has now been asked to “keep away from politics” by the state leaders as Bihar gets ready [...]
Read More...Aug 12(TNN): Even as the capital bathed in heavy rains bringing relief from the baking sun, concerns peaked about the failed monsoon in eastern India, with the issue threatening to become a factor in poll-bound Bihar. CongressMP Jagdambika Pal this week told Lok Sabha that eastern UP, Bihar and Jharkhand were facing a serious [...]
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