-The Hindu Search on for another location for the proposed nuclear electricity park There is another wrinkle in India-Russia relations, besides the known differences over Sistema’s telecom investments, the delays in the commissioning of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov and the applicability of the nuclear liability legislation to units 3 and 4 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. India and Russia are scouting for another site for a nuclear electricity park after the West...
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Questions swirl around source of funding of Gadkari's firm -Josy Joseph, Anjaya Anparthi, Abhishek Choudhari & Shishir Arya
-The Times of India NEW DELHI/ NAGPUR: Grave questions have surfaced over the source of funds for Purti Power and Sugar Ltd, controlled by BJP president Nitin Gadkari. Investigations reveal significant investments and large loans to Purti by a construction firm, Ideal Road Builders (IRB) Group, which had won contracts between 1995 and 1999, when Gadkari was the PWD minister in Maharashtra. Besides IRB Group, the other significant shareholders in Purti are...
More »Set up helplines, women’s cell in districts, Centre tells Haryana -Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Experts call for special police training to deal with rape victims In the wake of a spurt in the number of rape cases being reported from Haryana, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has directed the State government to set up a women’s cell in every district and ask the State police chief to take action against district police chiefs who fail act against such crimes. The Ministry has also asked...
More »Child marriage as remedy for rape sparks furore -Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Chautala echoes Haryana khap panchayat demand; rape not a black-and-white law and order issue, says Renuka Chowdhury Even as the former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, backed demands for new laws that will allow marriage of teenagers saying it would help end the surge in sexual crimes reported from across the State in recent weeks, a senior Congress leader has said that the State’s rape crisis was not a...
More »Poor awareness about Biodiversity Act among forest officials -B Chandrashekhar
-The Hindu Several unique species of flora-fauna fast approaching the state of extinction At a time when the representatives of 193 countries have gathered here for mulling over the conservation of biodiversity for better future of the humanity and for symbiosis of all living creatures on planet earth, lack of awareness about the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 among the Forest Department officials is resulting in the indiscriminate poaching of the biodiversity wealth...
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