-PTI NEW delhi: With opposition mounting campaign over Land Acquisition Bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reached out to farmers, telling them that "lies" are being spread over the measure for "political reasons" to create confusion among the farming community. Speaking on the issue over radio in his monthly 'Mann ki Baat' programme, he insisted there were some "lacunae" in the Land Act of 2013 "as it was enacted in a...
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When The Haze Takes Over -Pavithra S Rangan
-Outlook The NDA seems bent on subverting the RTI Act. Is the slow dismembering of the CIC part of the plan? We Have No Recall For the first time since its inception, CIC's functions expropriated by the govt A search committee set up to appoint a new CIC chief says meeting details cannot be revealed; "highly confidential" RTI appeals pertaining to prime depts...
More »Maneka joins opposition in asking finance minister to reverse budget cut for child scheme -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Times of India NEW delhi: Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday put the government in a somewhat embarrassing situation in Lok Sabha when she agreed with opposition members that the severe budget cuts that her ministry faced would adversely affect welfare of children in the country. A vociferous opposition demanded promptly demanded that finance minister Arun Jaitley respond to the issue. Maneka made the comments in relation to...
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-The Telegraph New delhi: Health experts today criticised a government delay in implementing a proposed daily drug therapy for tuberculosis patients, meant to reduce the risk of relapse after completion of treatment. Although the health ministry had itself last year released TB treatment standards emphasising a move towards daily therapy, virtually all patients treated under the government TB control programme receive thrice-a-week therapy, which carries a higher risk of relapse. A consortium of...
More »India among 5 nations accounting for half of world’s hungry -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line India measures poorest in terms of stunted children at 47.9% NEW delhi: Five middle-income countries (MICs) which displayed strong economic growth in 2014 - India, Brazil, China, Mexico and Indonesia - account for 363 million, or a half, of the world's hungry, according to a report released on Wednesday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) called on Governments of these...
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