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Jobless growth back to haunt UPA-Anil Padmanabhan

-Live Mint The policy planners should be revisiting the fundamentals of the growth strategy India published a news story quoting from a research paper published by the Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR) on the vexing issue of employment generation in the Indian economy. Referring to the compelling phase of unprecedented growth (when the average increase was 9%) in the latter half of the last decade, the IAMR study said, “Employment in...

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The Doctor Only Knows Economics-Lola Nayar and Amba Batra Bakshi

-Outlook This could be the UPA’s worst cut to its beloved aam admi. Healthcare has virtually been handed over to privateers. Not For Those Who Need It Most Govt seems to have abandoned healthcare to the private sector Diagnosing An Ailing Republic     70 per cent of India still lives in the villages, where only two per cent of qualified allopathic doctors are available     Due to lack of access to medical care, rural India...

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In Tihar, officials feel ‘tinge of sorrow’-Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

-The Hindu ‘Al vida’, said Afzal Guru to his executioner, who had himself bid him good bye with the SAMe words a few seconds earlier. And then as the executioner pulled a lever, Afzal’s frame hung from the gallows. “He was dead in a minute, though”, as per the jail norms, the body was kept hanging for a full half hour, said an official who witnessed the hanging. Thereafter Afzal’s body was...

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Rich slogans, quiet secrets

-The Hindustan Times The hanging of the 2001 Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru in Delhi’s Tihar Jail last week evoked a range of diverse emotions. While Guru’s Sopore-based family accused the Union government of not informing them about the execution, the State rejected the charge. A senior Supreme Court lawyer questioned the timing of the execution, saying that the Centre decided to hang Guru at this time because several important assembly...

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'Human rights abuse, false cases filed against anti-posco protesters-Mohammad Ali

-The Hindu Withdraw cases against villagers, Posco Pratirodh Sangram SAMiti: Civil society groups Several civil society groups have alleged abuse of human rights and registration of false cases by State government agencies in order to curb resistance against the land acquisition for the proposed Posco steel plant in Odisha. Highlighting instances of “biased and arbitrary” police action in the eight villages of Jagatsinghpur district affected by the plant, illustrated in the recently-released fact...

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