7 Indian fishermen held in lanka north
Colombo: Sri lanka Navy has arrested seven Indian fishermen along with their trawler for allegedly poaching in Sri lankan waters, the Navy said here on Tuesday. Seven Indian fishermen were arrested on Monday by the Navy and the lankan Coast Guards in northern Sri lanka. lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, during his visit to India on May 13, had discussed the problems faced by Indian fisher-men in his meeting with PM Narendra Modi. The arrest came on the first day of fishermen resuming their work after the end of a 45-day-long annual fish breeding season ban on fishing using mechanised boats.
‘Reimburse school fees in drought-hit States’
New Delhi: National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recommended to drought-hit States to reimburse fees and other entitlements of children of farmers and economically-weaker section people studying in private schools for one year. The Commission has written letters to Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh to reimburse the fee and education entitlements such as school bags, uniform, notebooks under the ‘Sarva Siksha Abhiyan’.