With the death of a tiger in Pench Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, known as the ‘Tiger State’, has lost 19 big cats in the last 13 months.“A seven-year-old radio collared big cat was found dead in a lake at Karmajhiri range of Pench Reserve yesterday,” the Park Director K. Nayak said adding that “the possibility of the tiger being poisoned can’t be ruled out.”
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Tripura: 50 p.c. seats in local bodies for women
Jan 22, 2010
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In a step towards women’s empowerment, the Tripura cabinet has agreed to the Centre’s amendment bill of Article 243(D) of the Constitution to reserve 50 per cent of the total number of seats reserved for the fair sex in three-tier village panchayats and nagar palikas. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar told reporters here on Friday that the State Cabinet discussed the issue at the meeting of the Council of Ministers held here on Thursday night and welcomed the proposal.
2 lakh farm suicides since 1997
There were at least 16,196 farmers’ suicides in India in 2008, bringing the total since 1997 to 199,132, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
The share of the Big 5 States or ‘suicide belt’ in 2008 — Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh — remained very high at 10,797, or 66.6 per cent of the total farm suicides in the country. This was marginally higher than it was in 2007 (66.2 per cent). Maharashtra remains the worst State in the nation for farm suicides with a total of 3802. (This is just 40 short of the combined total of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.) The all-India total of 16,196 represents a fall of 436 from 2007. But the broad trends of the past decade reflect no significant change. The national average for farm suicides since 2003 stays at roughly one every 30 minutes.
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