Issues today have to be dressed up in ways certified by the corporate media. They have to be justified not by their importance to the public but by their acceptability to the media, their owners and sponsors. That the terrible tragedy in Pune demands serious, sober coverage is a truism. One of the side-effects of the ghastly blast has been unintended, though. The orgy of self-congratulation that marked the media...
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Plan panel withdraws RTI against Highways Ministry by Dipak Kumar Dash
In an unprecedented move, which could lead to simmering down the tension between the highways ministry and the Planning Commission, the principal adviser (infrastructure) in the planning panel Gajendra Haldea has withdrawn an RTI application seeking status of highway projects approved by Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC). The retired bureaucrat and a member of the PPPAC had filed the application before director (RTI) asking for status of NHAI projects...
More »Food security bill back on Centre table
The draft Food Security Bill, which has returned to the negotiating table of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) after a gap, is, among other things, expected to witness discussions on the number of people to be covered by the scheme across the country, whether the other vulnerable sections of the society are to brought within its ambit, whether it should be confined to the distribution of either rice or...
More »Preserving world’s biodiversity vital for economic development, UN official warns
Saving the world’s myriad diverse species, which are being lost to human activity at an unprecedented rate that some experts put at 1,000 times the natural progression, is vital not just for environmental reasons but for the economic well-being of humankind, a senior United Nations official said today. “Without preserving biodiversity and preserving our natural habitat, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) just cannot be achieved,” UN Development Programme (UNDP) Environment and...
More »Manmohan’s photo cannot be used without PMO’s approval by Sandeep Joshi
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has thrown a spanner in the works of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which planned to put up huge hoardings of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s photographs along all national highways. Going a step further, it directed all Central ministries and departments not use the Prime Minister’s photographs without prior approval. “Photograph of the Prime Minister cannot be used by any Ministry /Department without...
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