-Scroll.in Raghav Chandra, secretary of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, says displaced Adivasis should not only be compensated with money but land as well. The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has been quite proactive in the last few months. It has prevailed upon the central Government to withdraw orders that it thought “diluted” tribal rights, asked states to return “unfairly acquired tribal lands”, and reminded governors of their powers to...
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Six million people quit jobs in 10 months till June, shows govt data -Prashant K Nanda and Asit Ranjan Mishra
-Livemint.com While 10.7 million additional employees joined EPFO between September 2017 and June 2018, at least 6.04 million stopped subscribing to it: Government New Delhi: At least six million people, about 4.6 million of them under 35 years of age, left their formal jobs in the 10 months ending June and may or may not have rejoined work, according to payroll data released by the Government on Friday. This is the first time...
More »Uttarakhand HC slams tribunal chairman for strange order; imposes cost on central govt
-PTI The Central Administrative Tribunal’s Nainital bench had been hearing the case filed by Sanjiv Chaturvedi in the matter pertaining to adverse entries made into his appraisal report of 2015-16 by AIIMS, New Delhi, where he was working as Chief Vigilance Officer from 2012 to 2016. Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court has slammed the chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for passing a “strange order” on a plea made by the central...
More »Why Indian Government exports petrol at half the price we pay -Anand Patel
-IndiaToday.in New Delhi: A news report actively shared on social media based on RTI reply on exports claims that India is exporting refined petrol to 15 nations at Rs 34 per litre while refined diesel is exported to 29 countries at Rs 37 per litre as per the information provided. It is being alleged that Government has levied high taxes on petroleum products making it a prized commodity for domestic consumers while...
More »In Gujarat, custodial death of Dalit man shines light on cases closed before court remands -Abhishek Dey
-Scroll.in Between 2007 and 2016, in 80.9% of reported cases, individuals in police custody in the state died before being produced in court, according to Government data. On Sunday, a Dalit man died while in police custody on the outskirts of Dhanera town in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district. Lubaram Uttamaram, 25, a migrant labourer from Rajasthan’s Barmer district, was picked up by the police from a check post on the border of...
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