-The Hindu Final list to be decided after consultation with the grass-root workers of the respective areas Taking a lead over all the mainstream political parties, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday announced its list of 44 shortlisted candidates for 12 constituencies for the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled later this year . The party had invited applications from Delhiites for candidature over a month ago. While releasing the list, AAP convenor ARVind Kejriwal...
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-The Times of India New Delhi: It's easy to locate Triveni's home in the narrow lanes of the slum colony of Sundar Nagri. "Kaun? Woh RTI-wali ?" says a youngster who offers to lead us through a maze of gullies flanked by open drains till we reach a house that sits cheek-by-jowl with other similar haphazardly built structures. Its occupant, though, is a picture of quiet resilience. In 2002, Triveni became the...
More »India Inc trying to get proactive in handling sexual harassment cases -Sreeradha D Basu, Devina Sengupta & Saumya Bhattacharya
-The Economic Times MUMBAI/ BANGALORE/ NEW DELHI: For 100,000 employees in the group, ICICI gets 60-odd sexual harassment complaints in a year. Of this, 30-40% are found to be true. India's second-largest bank by assets does not insist on absolute proof when it comes to allegations of sexual harassment. In case of circumstantial evidence, the person is asked to resign. If there is stronger proof, the person is sacked. ICICI is among...
More »A son gets a mother -Ramendra Singh
-The Indian Express Kanpur: Vijai Kumari got bail in 1994. But it took two decades for her to leave Lucknow women's jail, as son Kanhaiya, born in prison, raised money for a lawyer and a bond Vijai Kumari named her son Kanhaiya, after Lord Krishna. It was on the suggestion of a doctor-like in the mythology about the Hindu god, he was born in jail. For the next two decades, as...
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-The Economic Times ARVind Panagariya, a professor of Indian economics at Columbia University, hits out at Nobel laureate and HARVard University professor Amartya Sen over his call to confront MPs with the "number of deaths" a delayed Food Security Bill can cause. The former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank counters Sen's argument that it is high social spending that has contributed to the economic growth of Asian economies such...
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