Current Affairs | 21st July 2013 . *Forensic report says pesticide in meal snuffed out young lives *Rethink Rangarajan formula on gas pricing, says Yashwant Sinha-led committee *Curfew continues in Kashmir *Arunachal has 90 languages: survey There are over 780 languages and 66 different scripts in India and Arunachal Pradesh is the richest among the States with 90 languages. These findings and more are set to come to light with the publication of a baseline survey of Indian languages by the People’s Linguistic Survey of India. Comprising 50 volumes, the survey would be published between September 2013 and December 2014. *Land grants in woman’s name The government is proposing to make all new land distribution among landless poor families in the women’s name, instead of jointly with her husband, according to the draft National Land Reforms Policy formulated by the Rural Development Ministry. The draft policy was formulated at a meeting chaired by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. *Israel agrees to release Palestinian prisoners Israel has agreed to release Palestinian prisoners to resume peace talks, but will not yield to other demands the Palestinians say must be met before they return to the negotiating table. *Venezuela ‘ends’ truce with U.S. Venezuela said it has “ended” its rapprochement with the U.S. following a statement by Samantha Power, nominated to become the U.S. envoy to the U.N.
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