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State may fail to fulfil UN goals
Ranchi, March 9: United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are still a distant dream in Jharkhand.
According to members of Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA) — a forum of NGOs and social activists, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh lagged behind other states in achieving the MDGs.
- Date:
- 10/03/2010
- Source:
- Telegraph (Ranchi)
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Digvijay alleges swindling of funds in MNREGS in UP
Alleging gross swindling of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) in UP, Congress national general Digvijay Singh claimed to have thrashed out a one-year programme to expose the corruption in which Chief Minister Mayawati and her cabinet colleagues allegedly indulged.
- Date:
- 10/03/2010
- Source:
- Pioneer (Lucknow)
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Government plans four-day farmers’ convention
BHUBANESWAR: On the defensive over the suicide of farmers, the State Government has decided to organise the State-level farmers’ convention in a massive way for four days from March 5.
- Date:
- 04/03/2010
- Source:
- New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa
Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- Ecologist
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Greens want sparrow chirp back in Mumbai
Mumbai: Where once people welcomed sparrows and other birds on to their window sills, these days modern life has all but killed them off.
Sparrows that used to make nests in people’s lofts and were regularly fed with grain and clean water, struggle to find spaces in Mumbai to nest in today.
- Date:
- 01/03/2010
- Source:
- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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MGNREGS: State says ‘no’ to NGOs
The State government is understood to have expressed to the Centre its reservations about the move to rope in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the State.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
- Source:
- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Clinics to help villagers use RTI
Several voluntary organisations working to create awareness on Right to Information Act have decided to set up “RTI clinics” at district and block headquarters in order to help villagers benefit from the sunshine law.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
- Source:
- Telegraph (Ranchi)
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Ban buffalo slaughter too, says Maneka
Welcoming the proposed ban on cow slaughter, animals activist and MP Maneka Gandhi said stringent laws were needed to avoid animal sacrifice in the name of religion.
Activists should strengthen their fight for better treatment of animals. “I would suggest that this proposed bill include the buffaloes too,” she said.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
- Source:
- Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
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Raid pet shops, animal breeders, says Maneka
''Wildlife trade is bigger than drug peddling in India. Animal breeders, pet shops and aquariums are hotspots for wildlife business in the country.''
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
- Source:
- Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
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HC: Relocate trees for roads
The AP High Court on Monday observed that trees cannot be axed indiscriminately in contravention of the 2002 Act. But neither can work be stopped for their sake.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
- Source:
- Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
