Maharashtra - Different Truths

May 31, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Only Big Farmers Benefit from Write-Offs

Last year, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Punjab undertook large-scale farm debt waivers, costing half a percent of the entire GDP of India, and Andhra Pradesh recently announced a loan...

May 31, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

By-Poll Results Give Big Boost to Opposition Unity

It is now obvious that a united opposition can defeat the BJP. As much is clear from the Kairana and Noorpur by-election results which are a continuation of the...

May 28, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Cover Story

174 Children Go Missing in India Every Day, Half of Them Remain Untraced

The data released by MHA suggests that more than half of all missing children in the country are concentrated in just five states, namely West Bengal, Delhi UT, Madhya...

May 24, 2018
IPA Service
Electric Energy, Politics

Electricity to all Villages, but Issues Remain: Mission Unfulfilled until Every Home has Power

There are six lakh villages in India and majority of the population still lived in rural areas. What Modi government has done in the last four years is to...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Banking, Economy

Banks Being Penalised While Big Fraudsters are at Large

Quizzically, PNB, a victim of the world’s biggest bank fraud ever, is out of RBI’s first prompt corrective action (PCA) list. The biggest global bank fraudster, Nirav Modi, who...

May 16, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Industry

Bitter Cup of Woes of the Sugar Industry

The moot issue is whether the latest support would help mills, burdened as they were with payment arrears of a humongous Rs. 13,899 crore to the growers as on...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Mass Media

On Jey Day, Jigna Walks Free: Mumbai Scribes Take Reporting to the Underworld

The day came for journalist Jey Dey to get justice. Mafia don and Dawood eyesore Chhota ‘Chindi’ Rajan got convicted along with nine others, while another journalist, alleged femme...

April 25, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

CPI Party Leadership Must Focus More on Dalits and Youth

The CPI has been talking of broad-based unity of the anti-BJP forces including the Congress since the installation of the Narendra Modi Government at the centre in May 2014....

April 16, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

If Elections are Held Today, BJP Seen Losing

Anger against the Modi government is at its peak right now, not the least because of the Kathua and Unnao missteps, and the Dalit and farmer unrest sweeping the...

March 29, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Food

Scrumptious Namkeen, Anyone?

Ruchira tells us about various namkeens, from different parts of India, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Indians are probably the most notorious foodies in the world....

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