-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that an MLA or MP who enters into a business contract with the government stands automatically disqualified, upholding the disqualification of BJP legislator Bajrang Bahadur Singh who won the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from Pharenda constituency. The apex court rejected Singh's argument that the disqualification would arise only if a contractor having a subsisting contract contests an election, not when a legislator...
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Education campaign yields dividends -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Hindu In 1951, a year after India became a republic, only 18.33 per cent of its 35.11 crore citizens could read. According to the 2011 census, 74.04 per cent of its 121.02 crore people can read. In 60 years, 83.12 crore Indians learnt to read. School enrolment is at an all-time high with several surveys putting primary enrolment at above 96 per cent. However, India is still below the world's average...
More »Gogoi: Implement Plantation Labour Act in 6 months -Anup Sharma
-The Pioneer Guwahati: Scared by the protests of the tea garden workers in the State in last one week, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked the tea garden management in the State not only to ensure the continuation of ration at subsidised rate but also to make the living condition of the tea garden workers better within next six months time. The Assam Chief Minister held a meeting with the representatives...
More »More Girls Missing in 'Developed' States
Child sex ratio (CSR) in India has declined from 927 in 2001 to 918 in 2011 (girls per 1,000 boys), according to a new report entitled Missing Girls: Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India (Census 2011). Of the total 640 districts in the country, 429 districts have experienced decline in CSR (see the link below). Of these 429 districts, 26 districts exhibited drastic decline (of 50 points or more),...
More »Struck off in one blow -Gopalkrishna Gandhi
-The Hindu The Planning Commission needed to be returned to its first purposes, to its transparent and audacious planning for an India progressing without old enervations and new injustices to prosperity. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. The 18th century nursery rhyme, its original probably a riddle, is loved for the one image it invokes - a great fall. The picture of a dumpy egg, of a being...
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