Ten days after the murder of the four guards, five tribals were killed in the forest near Barahania village, 40 km from Chakla. Angry villagers said CRPF personnel, escorting election officials on duty, killed the tribals. The Maoists forced a three-day bandh in Latehar after the incident. The villagers said the CRPF contingent came to the village and asked five of them to show them the way.
A cost-benefit analysis of paddy farming Farmers from Bazua, a small village in Khulna district, have freed their village from saltwater aggression. In 2005, they resolved not to farm saltwater shrimp. Parimal Mandal, a resident, calculated the economy of the shift. Last year, he cultivated paddy and watermelon and earned Tk 100,000 (US $1,478) from an acre (0.4 ha) of land. If I had leased
A blogger was acquitted by a Seoul court on charges of spreading malicious rumours about the South Korean economy that cost the government billions of dollars. Park Dae-sung was released after the court ruled he did not violate telecommunications laws with his popular weblogs, which castigated policymakers and forecast dire scenarios that many investors took to heart. The case was
Just when you thought the frenzy of Charles Darwin anniversary celebrations was on the wane, there is another tasty morsel. But unlike the multitude of TV and radio documentaries, books and exhibitions honouring the grandad of evolution, this item is all about popular participation. A project called Darwin Aloud is calling on people around the world to send in videos of themselves
Rice has different gastronomical connotations to different people. It could mean the aromatic biryani or Sambhar-rice or simply dal-chawal. Rice is also top priority of GM pushers and farmers and activists are doing whatever it takes to keep them at bay. After rounds of protests, petitions and public awareness it is the turn of festivals. More than 150 traditional varieties of rice,
The Delhi High Court has held the media cannot be restrained from reporting confidential information of a company pertaining to its upcoming projects and dealings with other companies. The court passed the order while dismissing a plea of petroleum company Petronet lng seeking to restrain a website from publishing information which
