-The Hindu Farming must be treated as a market-based enterprise and made viable on its own terms The week-long farmers’ march which reached Mumbai earlier this month, on the anniversary of Gandhi’s Dandi March of 1930, was unprecedented in many ways. It was mostly silent and disciplined, mostly leaderless, non-disruptive and non-violent, and well organised. It received the sympathy of middle class city dwellers, food and water from bystanders, free medical services...
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10% drop in farm suicides, 11,000 cases in 2016: Govt -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Farmer suicides declined by nearly 10% in 2016 as compared to a year earlier, though the rate at which farmers took their lives continued to be at least one every hour. Maharashtra continues to be at the top in recording the highest number of farmer suicides in India. Provisional figures for the year 2016, disclosed by agriculture ministry in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, show that the...
More »Delhi tests ground to cut student subsidy -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has floated a proposal to scale down an interest waiver scheme meant to help poor students enrol themselves for professional courses. The human resource development ministry has sought the opinion of other ministries on lowering to Rs 7.5 lakh from Rs 10 lakh the loan amount eligible for interest waiver under the central sector interest subsidy scheme (SCISS) launched in 2009. The proposal to lower the ceiling...
More »After 2 months of arguments against Aadhaar, govt to defend its validity -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday will start countering a mountain of legal issues heaped against Aadhaar in the Supreme Court by numerous petitioners in the last two months, primarily focussing on violation of individual’s right to privacy through collection and storage of biometric data. During 19 days of arguments spanning two months sINCe it began on January 17, senior advocates Shyam Divan, Kapil Sibal, P Chidambaram, Gopal...
More »Can't charge over Rs 50 for giving info under RTI: SC -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed a ceiling of Rs 50 for public bodies, INCluding legislative assemblies and high courts, for providing information under the Right to Information Act. A bench of Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit also ruled that the government bodies could not charge more than Rs 5 per page for giving photocopies of documents sought under the Act. It...
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