-The Times of India JAIPUR: The " Rozi Roti Adhikar Yatra" (rally for right to food and employment) that was flagged off from Udaipur district on September 30, reached Jaipur on Saturday after traversing through six districts where it created awareness among people to fight for food security for all without distinction on economic criteria. Several other rallies in the state to demand an effective national food security legislation started from different...

-The Indian Express Conspiracy theories are a handy standby when one wants to avoid the effort of critical thinking. So Tavleen Singh would rather rely on “the foreign hand” — that old bogey out of Indira Gandhi’s box of tricks — than examine facts that reveal uncomfortable truths. Lamenting the closure of the Vedanta aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh, Orissa (‘Why India could remain forever’, IE, September 30), Singh asserts that, if...

-Reuters Supreme Court has suspended iron ore transportation in western Goa and asked for a report into illegal Mining in the state in four weeks, Justice Aftab Alam said on Friday. Goa state had already suspended Mining activities there in September. The top court has asked the Central Empowered Committee to submit a report on illegal Mining in Goa in four weeks, the judge added. Goa is the country's second-biggest iron ore producing...

-Outlook The Justice MB Shah Commission probing into the multi-crore Mining scam today said most of the iron ore and manganese mines in Odisha would come under the purview of its investigation. "The commission will verify records and probe into all the iron ore and manganese mines allocated since 1952 whether closed or in operational stage," said U V Singh, the team leader and Principal Conservator of Forest in Karnataka. Stating that about...

-Outlook As part of the ongoing probe into the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam in Madurai, police today raided the film production company of Union Minister M K Alagiri's son, Durai Dayanidhi, an accused in the case. The police team from Madurai searched the premises of Dayanidhi's cinema company here for nearly an hour, sources said without elaborating. Dayanidhi, for whom a special police team was on the lookout, and nine others are...