A ward member in Vilappil panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram was allegedly gifted a Gold bangle by the women engaged in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in her ward. A male member in one of the adjacent wards received gifts ranging from a Gold ring to footwear. All as thanksgiving for work offered to the women under NREGS. This is just one of the many shocking revelation s which were revealed in...
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Mrs Boss caught with Gold bricks
The wife of a top PSU boss has been caught collecting bribe in Gold bricks, the CBI said today, the charge suggesting that the corrupt remain as audacious as ever in spite of the shakedown in high places. Abhay Kumar Srivastava, the chairman and managing director of Navratna PSU Nalco, and his wife Chandni have been arrested. The CBI said Chandni took three 24-carat Gold bricks weighing a kg each in...
More »Banks confident of meeting agriculture lending targets by Parnika Sokhi
Take a host of initiatives to ramp up presence in rural markets. With increased focus on directing funds towards agriculture, banks are confident of meeting their farm sector lending targets this financial year. “We had 60 rural branches last year and will take it to 125 by next month. This will give a major fillip to the agri lending business,” said S Chakrabarthy, deputy managing director, Axis Bank. According to the Trend and...
More »The colour brown by TV Jayan
It’s not just the fibre and vitamins; wholegrain brown rice has a compound that may protect you from high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Replacing that familiar mound of white on your plate with a brown variety may do a world of good to your heart. Nutritionists have known for a while that brown rice is healthier, and been exhorting rice eaters to choose the wholegrain brown type instead of...
More »RTI is best tool to check malpractices by Partha Sarathi Biswas
“The Right to Information (RTI) Act is a very powerful tool to fight the cancer of corruption, which is eating away at the vitals of the country,” stated former judge PM Dhakephalkar. He was speaking at a discussion on ‘Corruption ridden India’, organised by Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme (Casp) Prabodhan Mandal at SP College on Sunday. Apart from Dhakephalkar, resident editor of Pune edition of DNA, Abhay Vaidya, former director general...
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