-Outlook Panaji: Activists who stop power plants, coal mining and projects like dams do not help in removing poverty from the country, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said. "There is nothing more important than removing poverty from the country. I want to ask people who protest whether their action results in removing poverty?" Chidambaram said during an interview at 'ThinkFest' event in Goa. "Poverty is the greatest polluter and a curse. There...
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Invest in Girls' Education to Break Cycle of Poverty: UNICEF
-Outlook New Delhi: Investing in education of girls, especially the most marginalised, is required to make progress on most social indicators in India, according to UNICEF. To mark the second International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF today organised a meeting with top Urdu editors in the capital. Speaking at the event, Urmila Sarkar, Chief of Education UNICEF, said, "Innovation in girls education will be instrumental to female empowerment and breaking the cycle...
More »Ensure child rights in jails, govt told -Sumir Karmakar
-The Telegraph Guwahati: The National NGO Child Rights coalition (NNCRC), an umbrella organisation of NGOs working for children, has urged the Assam government to protect the rights of children living in prisons or detention camps for illegal immigrants. These children live in prison because that is where their parents live and they have nowhere else to go. The appeal came just days after a four-member team of the NNCRC found seven children, including...
More »CBI can’t act as a police force, Gauhati high court rules -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a startling decision which has ramifications for sensitive cases, the Gauhati high court has ruled that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was legally not a police force and stripped it of its powers to investigate crimes, arrest suspects and file charge-sheets. The ministry of home affairs (MHA) had, by a resolution dated April 1, 1963, constituted the CBI as a police force under the...
More »Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Environment and Forests Minister interviewed by Nitin Sethi
-The Hindu "The most important milestone to be set at Warsaw is on climate finance," says Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Environment and Forests Minister, in an interview ahead of the climate negotiations beginning November 11. * What are your thoughts on the view that historical emissions should not play a role in deciding responsibilities under the 2015 agreement? India has consistently held the view that historical emissions are a very important pillar of issues...
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