-The Indian Express Time to take the bolder steps, bring FDI to small towns When the GDP falls below 7 per cent, we need to start worrying. When it is less than 6 per cent, we must treat it as a crisis situation. Growth models show that the robust investment rates already achieved, and twice the productivity growth achieved in the 1980s and ’90s, will get us 8 per cent growth. This...
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Narasimha Rao performed puja during demolition of Babri Masjid: Book
-PTI Yet another book has levelled an allegation that P V Narasimha Rao had connived at the demolition of Babri Masjid, claiming that the late Prime Minister had sat in a puja when the kar sevaks began pulling it down and rose only when it was over. The charge relating to the demolition on Dec 6, 1992 has been made by eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar in his soon-to-be released autobiography "Beyond the...
More »Innocent tribals killed in encounter, claim left parties
-PTI CPI and CPI-ML today demanded a judicial probe into the killing of Maoists in a joint operation by police and CRPF personnel in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh, claiming they were "innocent tribals". "One or two Naxalites might have been there. The killing of innocent tribals will generate more anger and hatred towards police and security forces," CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said in a statement in Delhi. Ten of those...
More »Apex court glare on acid attacks
-PTI The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to apprise it of measures taken to regulate sale of acids to prevent their misuse as a weapon, particularly against women by jilted lovers. The court sought a “comprehensive affidavit” from the Union home ministry, which had been asked to consider appropriate provisions for “regulation of sale of acid so that it is not easily or readily available to offenders”. A bench of Justices R.M....
More »20 ‘Maoists’ killed in police operation in Chhattisgarh-Aman Sethi
Many were civilians caught in the crossfire, says Agnivesh The Chhattisgarh police and the Central Reserve Police Force claim to have killed 20 guerrillas of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in two separate incidents in the State’s Sukma and Bijapur districts in the early hours of Friday. But, sources in the State police and inter-faith activist Swami Agnivesh said many of those killed in Bijapur were civilians caught in the...
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