At one point of time, it was the gunshots of

brigand Veerappan that rang through the

forest ranges of M.M. Hills and Cauvery Wildlife
Sanctuaries. Now, it is the roar of tigers that
echoes through the forest.
At least 15 tigers are believed to inhabit the vast
scathes of the 2,000-sq km area of the
sanctuaries in Chamarajanagar.
Claiming it to be the first time the population of
the endangered species has been enumerated
in the region, Sanjay Gubbi, conservation
biologist who led the camera trapping
exercise, says the time is ripe to declare the
areas tiger reserves.

There is no harm in sending the NSG, but then

you should have a clear command and control.
You cannot shove in the BSF, NSG, Army, etc,
just like that.
If the Army was called in, they could have a
better cordon as they have more strength.
There was no unity of command. How many

times has the government airlifted the NSG for

operations in the Valley

Internets contribution is in making

information more easily and more widely
available, but on the other hand, it is
hardening the divide that already exists
between the literate and the illiterate. In a
country like India, we have a huge number of
divisions and digital is adding one more
division to that divide .there was a need for
access to internet for all. I think that it is
important that there is access to internet. The
primary reason to do this is economic. The
service provider comes later

Hit by the vagaries of nature and

unfavourable policies, the plantation sector
has urged the government to extend 200 per
cent deductions of expenditure incurred on
any aspect of plant protection or labourers
welfare. such a step is imperative to save the
Rs 43,000-crore sector reeling under high

doses of taxation, un-remunerative returns

and commodity price fluctuation. commodity
prices are at its lowest, which make
plantation producers vulnerable for price
manipulation since they are at the lowest
rung in the value chain. Conceding that the
recently amended bonus Act is laudable in its
intention

they engaged in a scuffle with the

Samiti members on the platform.
Police have also registered a case
under Section 429 (mischief by
killing or maiming cattle.) of the IPC
against two unknown persons to
whom the bag belonged.
Indias rise far outstrips that of the Philippines
and China, whose share of immigrants rose 53%
and 34% in the same period. Indians continue
to be the single largest source of such
professionals populating the American
workforce The most common fields of study for

immigrant scientist and engineers in 2013 were

engineering, computer and mathematical
sciences and social and related sciences and over
80 per cent of the immigrant scientists and
engineers were employed in 2013, the same
percentage as their U.S.-born counterparts. The
rapid rise in the number of expatriate Indian
technologists comes in the decade when India
concerned about brain-drainhas launched a
plethora of schemes to attract highlyqualified scientists back to India. According to a
report by the U.N., Indians make up the largest
diaspora in the world, with 16 million of them
scattered across the world.
I was watching a group of Adivasi kids peering
into their mobile phones. The early morning sun
was mellow, and they were so engrossed that
they did not notice me drawing near.

Crimes against children was an indication of the

abysmal depths to which society is falling, the
Supreme Court said on Monday.

Rape of infants and children below 10 years was

nothing but brutal perversion. It asked
Parliament to enact a separate law providing for
harsh punishment.
Unfortunately, the rain played spoil sport and
scuttled efforts to paint the school and the park.