-The Hindu   High-powered committees to be set up in all taluks The State Government has decided to constitute high-powered committees in all taluks to check the eligibility of people selected under various rural housing schemes and also to select the beneficiaries if gram sabhas fail to do so within the stipulated time. The decision to constitute the committee comes in the wake of large-scale complaints about irregularities in the selection of beneficiaries under...

In a decision that may prompt private schools in Delhi to rejig the entire list for nursery admissions, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday modified and laid down new distance criteria for admission of toddlers under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw set the priority criteria for children applying under the 25 per cent EWS Quota...

-The Economic Times   The IMF wants to increase its lending capacity by $1 trillion, to rescue distressed countries in the eurozone plus those hit by aftershocks from the eurozone.  But US is struggling with fiscal problems of its own, Japan now has the highest debt/GDP ratio in the world (over 200%), and Europe is moving into an austerity phase. Clearly, a significant chunk of the new trillion will have to come from...

For the Government of India the first phase of the national solar mission has been a grand success. It not only managed to attract industry to invest in the generation of an energy considered costly, but also dramatically drove down the cost of producing this energy. In its celebration, little did the government realise that a major conglomerate had subverted rules to acquire a stake in the solar mission much...

-ANI Defending the decision to provide minority (Muslim) reservation, Law Minister, Salman Khurshid on Sunday said that the Central Government had powers to grant Quota to backwards castes of minority communities within the Hindu backward caste Quota. The Election Commission has stayed the government decision to grant 4.5 percent reservation to minorities (Muslims) in government jobs and educational institutions due to ongoing state polls. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has opposed the move, contending...