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Rs 565 cr stashed in Geneva accounts: Report by Ritu Sarin

The government’s draft report on black money — that has been circulated to members of the high level committee on black money for final comments — confirms that details of the HSBC accounts in Geneva have given the country its biggest black money trail. Citing this as an instance where the government has moved fast in tracing the coded account holders, the report states that the receipt resulted in information...

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Charged with terror, damned by aliases by Vidya Subrahmaniam

Mohammad Aamir had just turned 18, when one February day in 1998, he was ambushed by a police van. A month later, he found himself thrown against the cold, forbidding walls of a prison cell in the capital's Tihar jail. The charges were murder, terrorism and waging war against the nation. Aamir, released in January this year after 14 years, was named the main accused in 20 low-intensity bomb blasts executed...

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Make suggestions but don't impose solutions, Bhagwati tells civil society

-The Hindu   ‘Had market-using reforms been used in auctioning spectrum, the scam would not have arisen” Batting for removal of licence regime to tackle corruption, noted economist Jagdish N. Bhagwati on Thursday said the auction of 2G spectrum in 2008 would have averted the telecom scam. He lauded the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for bringing out anti-corruption legislation and asked the civil society to make suggestions and not impose solutions. “High-level...

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Farmers may get Rs 2,250 per quintal of common basmati: Experts

-PTI   Farmers may get up to Rs 2,250 per quintal of their common basmati paddy this season, according to experts. The forecast was made by scientists of the Agricultural Economics Department of GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, a university release said. The scientists made the forecast while working on a sub-project, 'Establishing and Networking of Market Intelligence Centres in India', of the National Agriculture Innovation Project. One of the objectives of...

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Low prices may cut Rabi potato acreage by 15 to 20 per cent by Madhvi Sally & Sutanuka Ghosal

Potato acreage in India is likely to drop by 15-20% in the new season. Farmers suffered last year due to a decline in prices following a higher production. According to an initial estimate, the losses could run into few thousand crores with Bengal farmers suffering the most. In this backdrop, a further expansion in area could weaken the prices even as sowing has started across Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Bihar and Punjab....

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