After a 33-day standoff between the workers at Maruti Suzuki India’s Manesar facility and the management, the company on Saturday said that a common ground has been reached and agitating workers would resume work on Monday. The stir finally ended on Saturday morning after a meeting between the agitating workers, government and the company management, where workers agreed to sign the ‘good conduct bond’ and a commitment that production would not...
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Reading between the Rs32 poverty line
-The Hindustan Times Do these people look well-off to you? The planning commission puts them above poverty line. Basant Kumar, 51 Shopkeeper Kusumpur Pahari slum, Vasant Vihar, Delhi Daily expense: Rs 53 Basant Kumar runs a little shop in a slum in Vasant Vihar, home to over two lakh migrant families. He feeds and clothes his wife and three children on his meagre earnings of Rs5,000 a month. He also works odd-jobs, in construction or with...
More »2G spectrum scam: Curiously transparent PMO by CL Manoj
There can be two ways of looking at the latest mess on the 2G spectrum front in the form of the Prime Minister's Office supplying a sensitive note to a request under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The widely-held view locates the root of this mess in rivalry between finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and home minister P Chidambaram, stemming from presumed prime ministerial ambitions when Dr Manmohan Singh faces serial...
More »Safety first, power generation comes later: Narayanasamy
-The Hindu Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V. Narayanasamy on Tuesday met those protesting for the past 10 days against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) and assured them that the safety and security of the people were paramount. “People's safety first and power generation comes later,” he told them at Idinthakarai in Tirunelveli district. Mr. Narayanasamy was deputed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to meet the agitators and...
More »‘Compensation for death of child in accidents should not be a pittance' by J Venkatesan
‘Tribunals must determine the sum rationally and judiciously' The Supreme Court has held that payment of compensation to parents for the death of a child, including a stillborn, in an accident must be just and not be a pittance. A Bench of Justices D.K. Jain and R.M. Lodha said: “The determination of the just amount of compensation is beset with difficulties, more so when the deceased happens to be an infant/child because...
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