-The Hoot A huge media conglomerate was built up by a chit fund company which has now collapsed. Can the West Bengal government whose MP was part of the empire disclaim responsibility, asks SAADIA. About 1400 journalists have lost their jobs because a chit fund company's little-known Chief Managing Director ventured to become a media mogul in West Bengal some three years back. Almost every three months, the Saradha Group that had...
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Bihar Cabinet nod for quota for women in police
-The Hindu Patna: The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday passed a proposal of the Home Department to grant 35 per cent reservation for women in recruitment of constables and sub-inspectors in reserved and as well as unreserved categories. As per the decision, women will get 35 per cent quota. The decision is part of government's women-centric measures in recent times. Women in cooperatives Earlier, the Cabinet approved 50 per cent quota for women in cooperatives. Special schemes Chief...
More »Fear keeps young dalit women away from Haryana village -Kim Arora
-The Times of India PABNAWA (HARYANA): It has been over 48 hours since the attack took place. But fear still stalks the dalits of Pabnawa village in Haryana's Kaithal district. The young women from the community have been moved out en masse by their families fearing sexual assault by upper-caste goons. Some were picked up by relatives from nearby villages after desperate SOS calls; others were escorted to safety by their...
More »Congress attempts to recapture tribal votes with 3-tier remuneration scheme
-The Times of India After the job guarantee scheme played a crucial role in UPA's reelection, the government is working on a plan to reach out to 100 million tribals to ensure remuneration for minor forest produce. The government will unveil an ambitious initiative by June, after the Cabinet clears the policy. The plan is to have a mechanism to fix the minimum support price for a list of 10-15 non-timber forest...
More »Housing societies not under RTI yet: Info chief-Ashutosh Shukla
-DNA The 97th constitutional amendment made RTI activists happy because they believed that it brought co-operative housing societies under the purview of the RTI Act. In February, the state passed its own ordinance implementing the amendment. State chief information commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad does not stand with the activists' consensus. He spoke with dna's Ashutosh Shukla about cooperative societies, pending second appeals and voluntary disclosure. Your opinion on housing societies coming under RTI? I don't think that...
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