Contents of a four-page letter from Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shows the country’s top judge recommending the inclusion of a specific clause in the Right to Information Act, 2005 to exempt judiciary from the transparency law’s ambit. The CJI in his letter dated September 16, 2009 pointed out how the “framers of the RTI Act” failed to visualise the extent to which...
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Won't allow cultivation of Bt brinjal: TN govt
The Tamil Nadu government today said it will not allow cultivation of genetically modified brinjal and the earlier assurance given in this regard by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi was "final". "The Chief Minister had said the state will not allow Bt Brinjal. And that is the final word. We will not allow (cultivation) of Bt brinjal," Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S Arumugam informed the Assembly. The Bt brinjal issue had been firmly opposed...
More »Food inflation at 18% 'unacceptable', says Montek
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told NDTV that he expects food inflation to come down to single digits in two to three months. He said that food inflation at 18 per cent levels is “unacceptable” and the government will take drastic steps if inflation doesn't cool in the next two months. He added that potato prices have come down sharply and vegetable prices are also coming down. Higher prices of...
More »Hunger helps Maoists spread their wings by B Vijay Murty
If you want to understand why the Maoists grow stronger, watch frail Shyam Charan Kisku, 5, as he keeps hunger away by nibbling at a wild berry called Kendu on a hot April afternoon. Kisku and 40-odd children in this scraggly village of mud-and-thatch homes, 180km south-east of Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi, did not get their free lunch this day under the national mid-day meal scheme, the world’s largest cooked-meal programme. Kisku’s mother,...
More »New food scheme based on Tendulkar report likely
A“reworked and realistic” food guarantee scheme is on the anvil. The Suresh Tendulkar panel report is likely to form the basis for poverty estimation required for this. A hint to this effect came during a meeting of the core group of Chief Ministers on price rise chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Thursday. The government has been under pressure from state governments to make a fresh BPL assessment....
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