-PTI The government is not in favour of farm loan waiver as it negatively impacts credit and recovery climate and has systematic consequences New Delhi: The government is not in favour of farm loan waiver as it negatively impacts credit and recovery climate, parliament was informed on Tuesday. However, several measures have been initiated to reduce the debt burden on farmers and INCrease availability of institutional credit, minister of state for agriculture Gajendra...
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India processes 24 per cent of solid waste generated: Govt data
-PTI NEW DELHI: Nearly 24 per cent of the solid waste generated in the country was being processed as on January 31, according to data presented by the government in Parliament. Out of over 1.43 lakh tonnes per day (tpd) of solid waste generated across the country, only about 33,800 tpd (or 23.73 per cent) was being processed as on the last day of January, the housing and urban affairs ministry data...
More »Aadhaar can't be insisted upon for any service except subsidies: Supreme Court -Dhananjay Mahapatra and Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday indefinitely extended the March 31 deadline for linking Aadhaar to bank accounts and mobile phones and ordered that except for disbursing subsidies, the Centre and states cannot insist on Aadhaar for any service, INCluding issuance of passports. The extension will be in place till the court delivers its final judgment. A five-judge constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices...
More »Govt calls for studies on climate change goals -Mayank Aggarwal
-Livemint.com The environment ministry has called for a series of studies from research organizations to develop a roadmap for the effective and efficient implementation of climate change goals New Delhi: Nearly two and half years after declaring a comprehensive list of goals to tackle climate change post 2020, the environment ministry has called for a series of studies from research organizations to develop a roadmap for the effective and efficient implementation of...
More »As Number of Murdered RTI Activists Rises to 67, It Is the Modi Government That Needs to 'Act Rightly' -Venkatesh Nayak
-TheWire.in When conscientious and well-meaning citizens are attacked for "acting rightly", is the government "acting rightly" by not doing enough to safeguard them? Yet another Right to Information (RTI) activist in Gujarat has paid with his life for demanding transparency. On March 9, Nanjibhai Sondarva (35), a resident of Manekvada village in Kotda Sangani taluka of Rajkot district, was allegedly clubbed to death by six people. The deceased’s father has claimed that...
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