-The Hindu Ties up with IIT-Kharagpur to gauge happiness levels Happiness, its pursuit and examining its essential nature have been considered the domain of philosophy, an ephemeral rather than tangible value. The Madhya Pradesh government, however, has tasked the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur with finding a quantifiable answer to that eternal question — what constitutes happiness and how happy are people really. The State government had, in July last year, set up the...
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In Detailed Judgment On Coal Scam Case, Huge Relief For Manmohan Singh -Tanima Biswas
-NDTV During arguments in court, Former coal secretary HC Gupta had claimed that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had given the "final approval" in the case. New Delhi: A judgment which convicted three former coal ministry officials for corruption in one of the cases related to the coal scam on Friday has also given a huge relief to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in charge of the coal ministry...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A special CBI court on Friday convicted former coal secretary H C Gupta and others in a case pertaining to the allocation of a coal block to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Limited (KSSPL). Gupta is the first secretary-rank officer to be convicted in a case pertaining to coal block allocation. Special CBI judge Bharat Parashar also convicted the coal ministry's former joint secretary K S Kropha...
More »Government may end up buying less than 30 million tonnes of wheat -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Till date, government has procured over 27 million tonnes of wheat By all estimates, wheat procurement is expected to be around 30 million tonnes in 2017-18, short of the initial target of 33 million tonnes. Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan in an interview to Business Standard did estimate that final procurement figures could be around 30 million tonnes, but said that it won't have any impact on stocks as the purchases were...
More »Delayed notification, non-uniformity in rules may dilute RERA: Icra
-PTI RERA Act would bring about a paradigm shift in the way the real estate industry operates Even as the Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) comes into effect, delay in issuing notification and non-uniformity of rules across the states may dilute its effective implementation, says the rating agency Icra. The Act would bring about a paradigm shift in the way the real estate industry operates and improve the level of transparency and accountability...
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