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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was all praises for Prime Minister Narendra Modi claiming that he was proud of him and respected that the BJP leader did not hide his 'true self'. Speaking at a public event in Jammu, the former Chief Minister said, "I like a lot of things about many leaders. I am from the village and feel proud... Even our Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) hails from the village and used to sell tea. We are political rivals but I appreciate that he does not hide his true self." He drew parallels between himself and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that like him PM Modi had not forgotten his roots and proudly calls himself a "chaiwala". Earlier, Azad retired from the Rajya Sabha and an emotional PM Modi had bid adieu to him by recalling his long association with the senior leader. "The person who will replace Ghulam Nabi ji (as Leader of Opposition) will have difficulty matching his work because he was not only concerned about ... » Learn More about Ghulam Nabi Azad praises PM Narendra Modi, says THIS about him at an event in Jammu

The body of a minor girl with burnt face and chopped leg was found in Jharkhand 's Palamau district on Sunday, the police said. The body was found near Brepur village situated on the banks of Soan river. The victim is a resident of Kusuwa village in Palamau district. Her father had lodged a compliant regarding her abduction on February 21. The miscreants burnt the face of the girl and chopped off one leg. The throat of the girl was also slit. The police suspect that the victim was first raped and later killed. The girl had gone missing when she had gone to answer nature's call on February 21. ... » Learn More about Mutilated body of minor girl found in Jharkhand

Goa-born, London-based author and journalist Sonia Faleiro is out with her second book of reportage, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, which was released last month in India. Combining reportage with the narrative skills of a fiction writer, The Good Girls documents the 2014 gang rape and murder of two minors in Katra Sadatganj — an “eyeblink of a village” in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun district — where land is power, security and identity. And where a girl’s life is “everyone’s business”. In Katra Sadatganj and its neighbouring hamlets, honour killings are common — girls are killed for marrying outside their caste, religion, even for having engaged in premarital sex. The rape and murder of 16-year-old Padma Shakya and 14-year-old Lalli Shakya (not their real names) — cousins as alike as “two grains of rice” — shocked the country at a time when the Nirbhaya case was still fresh in public memory. In an email interview, Faleiro, who is also the co-founder of the global journalists’ ... » Learn More about ‘I believe only facts matter’: Sonia Faleiro

Kidnappers have freed 42 people, including 27 children, snatched from a school in central Nigeria 10 days ago, officials said on Saturday, a day after more than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in the northwest. Also read: 344 abducted Nigerian boys freed "The abducted students, staff and relatives of Government Science College Kagara have regained their freedom and have been received by the Niger State government," Niger State governor Abubakar Sani Bello said on Twitter. In mid-February, gunmen in military uniforms raided the college, killing one student and taking 42 others — including 27 schoolboys, three teachers and other relatives of school staff, officials said. Northwest and central Nigeria have seen a surge in attacks by heavily armed criminal gangs locally known as "bandits" who raid villages, killing and abducting residents after looting and torching homes. On Friday, in the Jangebe, a village in Zamfara state, a suspected criminal gang attacked the ... » Learn More about Victims of mid-February Nigeria school abduction freed

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Which key players stand behind China's anti-poverty drive? New China Research, the think tank of Xinhua News Agency, released a research paper on Sunday to shed light on the rationale for China's anti-poverty drive, explaining the performance of the following five key "players": CAPABLE GOVERNMENT: RESTLESS HAND OR ENABLING HAND? How has China achieved an effective interaction between the state and its citizens to eradicate absolute poverty? The key to China's success lies in the effective interaction and coordination between a top-down government leadership and bottom-up grassroots innovation. Four areas of improvement are needed to boost the state's anti-poverty efforts, namely in leadership, innovation, mobilization, and implementation. In addition, multi-faceted supervision, anti-graft efforts, improvement in official governing style as well as public participation have all contributed to China realizing the goal of ... » Learn More about Factbox: Five subjects of China’s anti-poverty drive and their interactive logic

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now Co-Win registration from 9am tomorrow as India enters 2nd phase of vaccination: Details here View Sample For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS For Daily Alerts #Amit Shah BJP-led NDA will form government in Puducherry: Amit Shah #Amit Shah There was a time when Assam was known for violence, PM Modi changed that: Shah #Amit Shah Ahmedabad will emerge as India's sports city: Amit Shah #Amit Shah Amit Shah's 100 plus target in Assam is meant for us: Baghel #Amit Shah Amit Shah reviews COVID-19 vaccination drive #Amit Shah Defamation case against Amit Shah passed on to metropolitan magistrate court Just In 4 min ago Co-Win registration from 9am tomorrow as India enters 2nd phase of vaccination: Details here 21 min ago UN Human Rights Office says 18 dead in Myanmar crackdown 1 hr ago PM, Shah should ask ... » Learn More about Congress collapsing across India due to dynasty, says Amit Shah

Not too long ago, Surya Chhautia was ready to give up on a 100-acre coffee plantation in Golur village in Odisha’s Koraput district. The plantation had been lying unattended, yielding little. But today, Chhautia, 39, from the Valmiki community, is leading a campaign to add another 100 acres to the plantation and to turn his fellow villagers into coffee growers. Koraput, situated in the Eastern Ghats at a height of 3,000 feet above sea level, is known as much for its picturesque hills and streams as it is for its organic coffee. Koraput’s cool climes make it ideal for coffee growing. Chhautia’s enthusiasm reflects a new interest in coffee growing in Koraput where the crop was introduced some 90 years ago. For the past two years, the project administrator of Koraput’s Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Karu Soren, has been receiving a steady stream of requests from tribal and Dalit communities to help convert wasteland and common land into coffee plantations. “The trend shows a ... » Learn More about Organic coffee farming is transforming the lives of tribal communities in Odisha’s Koraput district

A ‘tent city’ that had come up at a petrol pump near the Singhu border protest site in December last year, is being shifted to a vacant ground a few metres away to offer some respite from the soaring heat in the city. Around 50 tents were pitched on the ground by Wednesday. Trenches have also been dug up along the perimeter to avoid waterlogging during heavy rain. Around 150 insulated tents were pitched at the petrol pump when the mercury had dipped and the city received record rainfall. However, with the temperatures now soaring, volunteers at the tent city said that it had become inconvenient for protesters to continue living inside the tents under direct sunlight. (Left) A group of people from Haryana arrive at the Singhu border; (above) Tents erected under trees at the protest site on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Protesting farmers had recently cleared the ground of shrubbery and bushes. Jatin Singh, one of the managing team members, ... » Learn More about To beat the heat, ‘tent city’ in Singhu shifts to vacant land

Consumption of packaged consumer goods is set to double in India with the bottom-of-pyramid segment shrinking, younger people coming into the workforce, the divide between rural and urban consumers diminishing and a meteoric rise of the digital workforce, Nestle India chairman Suresh Narayanan said on Friday. Narayanan, who leads India’s largest packaged foods company, said 140 million households are expected to be added to the aspiring and affluent set of consumers by 2030, which is "clear indication" of the growth potential of packaged consumer-facing brands. He said growth in rural and semi-urban India continues to outpace that of urban markets, and the resilience is likely to sustain. Urban markets faced the brunt of the pandemic, severely impacted with widespread disruption of supply chains, curtailed manufacturing and reverse migration of the labour force. “We are starting to see signs of improvement in urban India which was severely impacted because of lockdowns and ... » Learn More about Consumption of packaged consumer goods set to double in India: Nestle India chairman

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A research paper titled "Chinese Poverty Alleviation Studies: A Political Economy Perspective" was released Sunday by New China Research, the think tank of Xinhua News Agency, summarizing some of the glossaries related to the country's poverty alleviation practices as follows: DRIP IRRIGATION EFFECT "Drip Irrigation Effect" is a new concept based on China's precise poverty alleviation strategy. It offsets declining "trickle-down" effect of economic growth, highly summarizes the distinctive characteristics of China's precise poverty alleviation from "flood irrigation" to "precise drip irrigation." The "trickle-down theory" holds that as long as the total economic volume is large, wealth will naturally benefit the bottom by "trickling down," and the poor will get rid of poverty. However, when poverty alleviation is carried out to a certain extent, the "trickle-down" effect will be greatly attenuated, making it difficult to ... » Learn More about Factbox: Buzzwords on China’s poverty alleviation