Interest-free loans deliver village from hardship By HU DONGMEI in Xiji, Ningxia and ZHAO YIMENG | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-09 09:30 Share CLOSE Meng Debiao attends to black goats at his farm in Xiji, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, last month. He was able to expand his livestock business thanks to an interest-free loan from the rural credit cooperative. HU DONGMEI/CHINA DAILY
At the end of January, Meng Yanzhou and his daughter were busy dealing with a large number of packages at his express delivery company in Mengji village, Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
As Spring Festival approached, his company was handling deliveries of dried fruit, garments and other online purchases.
JAMSHEDPUR: Even before a brick could be laid for the construction of an airport in Dhalbhumgarh, a section of villagers have opposed it, with the gram sabha of Devshol village holding a meeting on Sunday to oppose the government proposal to acquire 24 acre land for the construction, which may prove to be a boon for air connectivity between Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.
The airport will connect the industrial belt of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, Kharagpur in West Bengal and Balasore in Odisha, experts believe. The proposed site is quite close to NH-33 and has a railway station near it which makes it all the more accessible for all.
The villagers alleged that SHO Munish Chauhan had pointed a pistol at their former pradhan
GREATER NOIDA: Around 400 villagers on Thursday staged a protest outside Bisrakh police station against its SHO and other officers for allegedly misbehaving with a lawyer and their former village pradhan.
The protestors demanded that an FIR be lodged against the Bisrakh SHO Munish Chauhan till Sunday or they “will protest again”.
They alleged that Chauhan had pointed a pistol at their former pradhan.
They said Bisrakh policemen have been “deliberately intervening in all construction-related affairs with vested interests.”
However, the police said these were “false allegations” and lodged an FIR against around 150 villagers, including 14 named persons.
Villagers protest against police for killing groom in Khairpur
National
February 2, 2021
SUKKUR: A large number of people of village Bagho Phulpoto staged a demo in front of SSP’s office, Khairpur, along with the body of Ayaz Ali and alleged that the Pir Jo Goth Police had killed him after he was arrested along with the bride Saima, three days ago on the charge of under-age marriage.
They accused the Pir Jo Goth Police of seeking Rs50,000 in bribe for the release of Ayaz and Saima along with their parents. Crying piteously, the boy’s mother, Mst Bashira charged that when they could not pay the bribe, the police tortured their son who died the moment he was released. She strongly refused the police charge that the bride was underage.