-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After years of existing as a repulsive mound of festering garbage, the landfill at Okhla has got a look that is more attractive. One face of the stabilised landfill has finally been “greened” and the capping work continues on the other sides. When the work is over, the overused landfill will get a new avatar as an ecopark. Tufail Ahmed, the engineer in charge of the...
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Gangsters go brazen: 220 gunshots fired on Delhi's streets over 30 days -Prawesh Lama and Shiv Sunny
-Hindustan Times The shooting incidents — between May 17 and June 15 — that HT analysed resulted in 16 deaths and left at least 22 people injured New Delhi: At least 220 bullets have been fired on Delhi’s streets in 43 incidents of shooting reported in the Capital over the last 30 days, according to HT’s analysis of all such incidents at a time when senior police officers are expressing concern about...
More »Squandering the gender dividend -Sonalde Desai
-The Hindu It is a national tragedy that women unable to find work are dropping out of the labour force If labour force survey data are to be believed, rural India is in the midst of a gender revolution in which nearly half the women who were in the workforce in 2004-5 had dropped out in 2017-18. The 61st round of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) recorded 48.5% rural women above...
More »Centre turns down RTI plea for CIC selection details
-The Hindu DoPT says search committee’s deliberations are exempted under the Act The Centre has refused to reveal details of the ongoing selection process for four new Central Information Commissioners, despite a Supreme Court order directing it to do so. The only information disclosed is that 256 people have applied for the four vacant positions, which were advertised five months ago. In its reply to a Right to Information request, the Department of...
More »Rs.3,000 monthly pension for kirana shopkeepers, traders: All you need to know
-Livemint.com * The new scheme is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's universal social secuity programme * PM Narendra Modi's new pension scheme aims at benefiting over 3 crore traders and shopkeepers The newly-inducted Union Cabinet, in its first meeting, approved a mega pension scheme to provide a minimum assured pension of Rs.3000 per month to all small shopkeepers and retail traders. The new scheme is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
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