The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped the Union and state governments for their failure to discharge their Duties under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( NREGA) aimed at providing "right to livelihood" to millions of poor in the hinterlands. Noting the disbursal of Rs 33,506 crore out of the total available fund of Rs 42,529 crore for 2009-10, a Bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices K S...
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After Ten Month Bhupinder Singh Hooda Submits Agriculture Production Report
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday submitted the Working Group on Agriculture Production report to Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi. It is to mention that Indian Prime Minster on April 8, 2010 constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under the chairmanship of the Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Bihar and West Bengal as members to recommend strategies and action plan...
More »A primer on the CAG by MV Kali Prasad
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India is a Constitutional Authority set up by the Constitution of India. Provisions of the CAG are contained in Article 148 (Comptroller and Auditor General of India), 149 (Duties and powers of the CAG), 150 (Form of accounts of the Union and of the States), and 151 (Audit reports) of the Constitution. He draws a salary equal to the judge of the Supreme Court.POWERS...
More »After favourable WTO verdict, US told to return shrimp money by Amiti Sen
India has asked the US to return shrimp exporters’ money locked up in Customs bonds. The US had imposed anti-dumping duty of 10.17% on Indian shrimps in 2005 and also asked local importers to provide enhanced Customs bonds worth the duty for past 12-month imports. When the US shrimp importers refused to furnish these bonds, India’s exporters had to shoulder the cost to keep shipments going. Following a successful complaint by...
More »Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths by Julian Assange
WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch...
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