-Countercurrents.org The events of last over two decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a major obstacle to social peace and process of development. In India while the communal violence began with the Jabalpur riot of 1961, it is from last couple of decades especially from 1980s that the divisive politics has tried to drive a wedge between different...
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CAG, food security and good sense -Tejinder Narang
-The Hindu Business Line A new CAG report offers valuable insights into the likely implications of implementing the proposed food security law. The National Food Security Bill (NFSB) couldn't be passed in the Parliament session that ended last week, despite a spirited Promotional pitch by its proponents - including Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. Last week also saw the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) table its report on "Performance Audit of...
More »NABARD shifts blame for corporate warehousing scheme to FinMin, RBI-Shalini Singh
-The Hindu In the eye of the storm for funding corporate warehousing projects on terms far softer than those offered to poor farmers, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is now blaming the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for the transgressions. Following a story in The Hindu, (‘As farmers suffer, NABARD offers soft loans to corporates, ' December 10, 2012), NABARD came under...
More »PM, Sonia may launch mobile tower project in Naxal-affected States-Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu With general elections just a year away, the Union government is keen to project the proposed installation of around 3,000 mobile towers in nine Naxal-affected States as one of the major achievements of the the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. For the Rs.3,000-crore project that would give mobile coverage to India's most backward districts and remote villages covering over 80 Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected districts, the DoT wants Prime Minister...
More »Railway bribery scam: Mamu will fix Kumar’s posting, Singla boasted -Neeraj Chauhan
-The Times of India CBI sources on Wednesday said they had evidence to prove that Pawan Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla had been "boasting about his maternal uncle (mama) being the railway minister and confidently assuring Sandeep Goyal that Mahesh Kumar would be made member (electrical)" in the Railway Board. This could spell trouble for Bansal as he has maintained that Singla was acting on his own and he had nothing to do...
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