-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Union minority affairs minister Rahman Khan wants the government to form an all-powerful taskforce to monitor and review terror cases against Muslims, arguing that it is needed to ensure justice for "innocent Muslim youth" languishing in jails after being framed in terror cases. Khan cited the example of the UK which, he said, has formed a task force under Prime Minister David Cameron to ensure there...
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Jammu and Kashmir government working towards eradicating unemployment: minister
-PTI SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir government is making all efforts to arrive at a solution to address the problem of unemployment in the state, Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs AR Rather has said. "There are about 6.50 lakh unemployed youth registered with various Employment and Counselling centres. The government is working overtime to explore a comprehensive solution so that maximum number of youth are provided jobs in both public and private...
More »Push for study quotas in private institutes -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Two panels examining the education standards of SC/STs and OBCs have urged the Centre to enact a law to implement admission quotas for them at private institutions of study. The panels, set up by a national monitoring committee for education of SC/STs and persons with disabilities, have suggested that private higher study institutions must implement quotas of 15 per cent for SCs, 7.5 per cent for STs and...
More »57 men missing, Deoli-Bramhagram becomes a 'village of widows'
-The Indian Express Shirwani, Pitora, Deoli (Uttarakhand): Over a fortnight after the flash-floods, while many villages remain inaccessible by road, tragic stories are emerging from areas where dirt tracks have been opened up. About seven kilometres from Guptkashi, the six-odd hamlets that comprise the Deoli-Bramhagram panchayat have reported 57 men missing, and the area is fast getting the tag of the "village of widows". For about six months of the year,...
More »Reporter claims Modi’s ‘15,000’ rescue figure came from BJP itself-Prashant Jha
-The Hindu The journalist who first wrote the story with the ‘15,000 Gujarati pilgrims' claim says his source for the figure was Anil Baluni, the BJP's spokesperson in Haldwani in Uttarakhand. For three days running, there was no reaction from the Bharatiya Janata Party to reports that the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, had evacuated ‘15,000 Gujaratis' from Uttarakhand in the course of a two-day visit to the hill State. But with...
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