There is more trouble in store for South Korean steel maker Posco’s Orissa project. Shoreline surveys have found the state’s coastline to be highly erosive. Worse still, 50%, that is 4.8 km of the 9.3 km coastline along the proposed captive port site at Jatadhari is eroding. This is likely to put a spanner in the works for the South Korean company, which has been insistent on a separate captive...
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Our cotton, their onions
India's reported willingness to relax its ceiling on cotton exports to accommodate the Pakistani demand for the commodity if Pakistan will permit the overland export of onions is a welcome development. The floods in Pakistan affected some portion of its cotton crop, and the country is now short of the commodity for its domestic textile and yarn industry, the mainstay of its FRAgile economy; heavy and unseasonal rains have caused...
More »Women card on CPM table by Biswajit Roy
The CPM is planning to field a large number of women candidates in the forthcoming Assembly polls in Bengal in an attempt to fight anti-incumbency and stem the steady slide over the past few years. “We have asked all the Left Front constituents to ensure nomination of women candidates in a large number,’’ CPM Bengal secretary and Left Front chairman Biman Bose said after a coalition meeting this morning. Indicating that the...
More »NAC wants action on tribals' forest rights
The National Advisory Council chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said the Forest Rights Act (FRA) needed strengthening and the Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Work Place Bill, 2010, must be extended to domestic workers. It also discussed how to push its views on the proposed National Food Security Bill, apart from deciding to examine the working of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. Aat a meeting today...
More »Food Security Bill to be out by mid-Jan
Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) has reached a consensus on the final FRAmework of the draft Food Security Bill that aimed to make legal entitlement of foodgrains to the poor. "We have reached a consensus on the final FRAmework of the Food Security Bill," an NAC member said on condition of anonymity. The draft Bill is expected to be made public within 10 days. The NAC discussed its earlier recommendation of...
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