-Live Mint Court says government should decide allocation of captive mine; move could lead to protests by rival steel makers New Delhi/Mumbai: A Supreme Court (SC) order on Friday raised the prospect that Posco's showcase $12 billion (`65,400 crore today) steel project in Orissa, stalled for at least six years, could be allocated a captive iron ore mine, but experts said such a move could lead to protests by other firms...
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Mamata proposes govt-sponsored deposit-taking scheme-Probal Basak
-The Business Standard The scheme can be named as 'Social Security Scheme' or 'We The People Scheme'; would not offer high returns like chit funds Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today proposed to launch a government-sponsored deposit-taking scheme to provide a secured saving option to the rural people of the state as an alternative. "To provide proper facility in the wake of growing financial insecurity, we are thinking of a social...
More »Jharkhand family grapples with encounter death of son -Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Gumla (Jharkhand): There had been an employees' strike at the college since February. Mukesh Sahu, 21, a second-year B.Sc. student, spent the Thursday afternoon in March running errands at Gumla market. As he sat down near the town pond to catch up with his college friends, his phone rang. "Naveen has been shot. The police shot him." It was his uncle, a couple of years older than him,...
More »Building euphoria-Himanshu Upadhyaya
-Frontline But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...
More »An ecosystem to save, or squander-Madhav Gadgil and Ligia Noronha
-The Hindu Instead of opening a debate on the Gadgil panel's report on the Western Ghats, the government has chosen to sideline and replace it with another by an alternate group This is a challenging time in India's development history where a number of tenets of environmental governance are being questioned by the imperative of growth. Environmental governance in India is under assault, and is thus in need of both fresh thinking,...
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