-Outlook Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assets worth around Rs 10.73 crore, double that of last year, but a number of his cabinet colleagues are much richer than him. Among the richer cabinet ministers are Praful Patel with assets of approximately Rs 52 crore, Sharad Pawar with property worth around Rs 22 crore and M K Azagiri with Rs 9.50 crore, according to updated list of assets of the ministers posted on...
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Madhya Pradesh to hear out Omkareshwar dam oustees -Mahim Pratap Singh
-The Hindu After standing in waist to neck-deep water for the past two weeks as part of their jal satyagraha , oustees of the Omkareshwar dam project have successfully managed to make the Madhya Pradesh Government sit up and take notice. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has deputed Industries Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and Tribal Affairs Minister Vijay Shah to tour the site of the jal satyagraha and work out a solution. The...
More »Heard of the ‘Bangladesh shining’ story?-Jairam Ramesh, Varad Pande & Pranjul Bhandari
-The Hindu The country has shown that it is possible to have superior social outcomes at lower per capita incomes and rates of economic growth Bangladesh is very much in the news these days in our country, but for the wrong reasons. In the unfortunate Bangladesh-bashing that seems to have become somewhat of a pastime, we seem to have failed to notice the striking developmental success that it has had in the...
More »UPA minister's kin linked to coal block allocation deal
-The Times of India CHENNAI: The DMK has once again landed the UPA government in a spot as the focus now shifts to the family of Union minister of state for information and broadcasting S Jagathrakshakan for their involvement in a company that was awarded a coal block in 2007 despite the fact that it had no track record in the sector. The Jagathrakshakan-owned J R Power Gen Pvt Ltd was barely...
More »MNREGA: Govt Formulates SOPs on Grievance Redressal
-Outlook Aiming to address concerns over MNREGA implementation and stop leakages of funds, government has formulated a set of standard operating procedures (SOPs) to streamline the redressal process, including timelines for both the Centre and states to disposal of complaints. The SOPs have been implemented with immediate effect and has been shared with the concerned department of all the state governments, Rural development Minister Jairam Ramesh said here today. "This is the second...
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