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Madhya Pradesh brings ordinance to ease buying of farm land by private players -Milind Ghatwai

-The Indian Express Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government on Monday issued an ordinance to amend a law related to the ceiling on agricultural holdings, which will allow industrialists and private developers to easily purchase as much agricultural land as they want for non-agricultural activities. The Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 was notified a month after the special Assembly session concluded, and just two months before the monsoon session...

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Inside the world of sand mafia: Terror casts gloom as cops bury heads -Rajesh Kumar Singh

-Hindustan Times Hamirpur/ Jalaun/ Banda: The dangerous sand mafia stops at nothing. It kills, runs over men in uniform, kidnaps and, in Uttar Pradesh, even molests and rapes. Its impunity stems from the fact, as an HT investigation found, that complaints lodged with police often remain confined to files. Shivpal Singh, gram pradhan of Bansariya village, testifies to the mafia’s dominance. “In March 2014, the musclemen of a kingpin sexually assaulted two women...

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When statistics lie -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

-The Asian Age The much-quoted sentence, "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics", was attributed to the 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli by American author Mark Twain. Although researchers could never find such a statement in any written work of Disraeli, the sentence gained universal popularity to signify how economists and other number-crunchers use the "persuasive power" of figures to make a political point or...

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Undermined -Srestha Banerjee

-Down to Earth Ordinance to reform the mining sector will do more harm than good SOON AFTER President Pranab Mukherjee signed the ordinance to amend the archaic Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act of 1957, Union minister for steel and mines, Narendra Singh Tomar, announced it is a revolutionary step towards reviving the country's mining sector. His ministry highlighted that the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Ordinance, 2015 will address...

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Delhi HC quashes lookout circular issued against Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai -Abhinav Garg

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday quashed the lookout circular issued against Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai. The high court also directed the authorities to expunge endorsements made while offloading Pillai from a flight to London by immigration officials on January 11. The court had reserved the order in the case on February 19. Pillai had objected to the government's move of offloading her when she was on her...

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