-PTI NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission today approved a plan size of Rs 16,626 crore for Delhi for 2013-14, up 4.8 per cent from the previous fiscal. It was at Rs 15,862 crore for 2012-13. The plan size was decided here at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Delhi Chief Minister Delhi Sheila Dikshit. "We have reviewed all aspects of the Delhi economy. Citizen services in Delhi over...
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Attack revenge for Salwa Judum, Operation Green Hunt: Maoists -Ashutosh Bhardwaj
-The Indian Express Maoists say target was Karma, demand pullout of forces Raipur: Claiming responsibility for Saturday's attack on the Congress convoy in Bastar which claimed 24 lives, the CPI (Maoist) said on Tuesday that the killing of senior party leaders was the "necessary revenge against the UPA's fascist Operation Green Hunt, which is being run in connivance with several state governments". "The primary aim behind this attack was to kill Mahendra Karma...
More »Salwa stares at bleak future-GS Radhakrishna
-The Telegraph Hyderabad: As rights groups accused the anti-Maoist militia Salwa Judum of atrocities on Chhattisgarh's villagers, its founder Mahendra Karma kept insisting his only aim was to "liberate" the tribals from the rebels' tyranny and propaganda. The future of the government-backed vigilante group, which still survives unofficially despite a Supreme Court order to disband it, now looks bleak after the Maoists killed Congress tribal leader Karma yesterday. The Salwa Judum (whose name...
More »India has a problem with inequality, and it won't be solved easily-Kunal Kumar Kundu
-The Business Standard Why government policy and jobless growth have let inequality worsen in recent times The Forbes list of billionaires features 55 Indians in 2013. The estimated net worth of only the top ten is $102.1 billion or approximately 5.5 per cent of India's gross domestic product. Paradoxically, every third poor person and every second malnourished child in the world is also an Indian. India also adds 7.5 million babies with...
More »First youth from Chola Naikkar tribe poised to go to college-Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Kozhikode: Given a choice between pursuing his dream of becoming an officer in the Indian Police Service and the Chola Naikkar's traditional hunter-gatherer way of life, 18-year-old Vinod C. says he would have chosen to follow the footsteps of his forefathers. But he cannot. Over the years, the hunters have become the hunted. "Trees are cut, wild animals attack our tribes and there is scarcity of food. We feel cornered. So...
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