| Farmers' suicides on the rise
The farmer's suicides story has always been controversial. Some activists and journalists say, suicides are getting worse and that it points to severe distress in the countryside.
However, others say this is an exaggeration, and that farmers are committing suicide for personal reasons just like the general population.
Now, a new data compiled by researchers at Chennai based Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) and carried by the Hindu newspaper uses government figures to bring out the full extent of the crisis across the country.
It also reveals a new disturbing phenomenon that farmers in a handful of states may be killing themselves at a higher rate than the general population.
The suicide figures are official: From the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) that records the number of suicides across India every year.
Turner Announces $230M In BRAC Funding For WPAFB
Rep. Mike Turner announced Monday that $230 million in Base Realignment and Closure construction funds have been earmarked for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The funds are included in the pending conference report to the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008. The funding places WPAFB on track to receive 1,000 jobs that are to come to the base as a result of the 2005 BRAC. Turner said the funds will go toward the construction of important facilities at the base such as the Aero Medical Research Laboratories, facilities for the Air Force Research Laboratories, and the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. This year, Turner testified before the House Budget Committee regarding the importance of this funding to WPAFB and the entire Dayton region.
The threat from terrorism does not justify slicing away our freedoms
Smiley swirled the last of the brandy in his balloon glass and muttered: "We've given up far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now we've got to take them back." That legendary spymaster's warning about the over-intrusive, over-mighty national security states that we in the self-styled "free world" built up during the cold war was delivered in John le Carré's novel of 1990, The Secret Pilgrim. But instead of taking those freedoms back, British people have lost more of them. Across the western world, vastly more personal information is held on individuals by states and private companies; ancient liberties are curbed, people detained without trial, free speech stifled. .
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