-IBN Orissa government today appointed S K Lohani, the director of Panchayati Raj department, as the nodal officer to assist the CBI team for a detailed probe into the alleged corruption in implementation of the rural job scam under MGNREGA, official sources said."S K Lohani will work as the state level nodal officer to assist the CBI's special investigation team. The additional district magistrates (ADMs) of six other districts are...
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Punjab, Star of India's Rise, Faces Steep Fall by Amol Sharma and Geeta Anand
TARN TARAN, India—India's northern state of Punjab was once a symbol of the nation's economic progress, its advances in agriculture lauded world-wide as a spectacular feat that made India self-sufficient in food production. But Punjab today faces a grave economic crisis, the result of years of shoddy governance that have stunted growth and created such a mound of public debt that the state is now seeking a multibillion dollar bailout from...
More »Centre has no say in oil prices, says FM
-The Telegraph The Trinamul Congress was silent on the petrol price hike for the second day, its leaders only saying that Mamata Banerjee would speak on the issue. While Trinamul is still working on its response to the Rs 5 rise that the Left has pounced on to attack the UPA government, of which the party is a key member, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the Centre could not be...
More »Eye on RTE, govt plans multi-storey schools by Maroosha Muzaffar
Breaking away from the two-storey norm for school buildings, the Education department has commissioned the construction of four-storey schools. The move is aimed at accommodating “more children in the schools” and fighting the shortage of land in the Capital. A senior official in the Education department told Newsline, “We have asked the construction agency to build schools that have more capacity. We are asking them to increase the storeys to three, or...
More »Oil companies to hike petrol price by Rs 5/litre wef midnight
-The Economic Times In the steepest hike ever, state- owned oil companies today increased petrol price by about Rs 5 per litre with effect from midnight tonight. The increase in petrol price, which the oil firms had been holding since January even though crude oil had touched a two-and-a-half-year high, came a day after election results of five state assemblies were announced. IndianOil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum will hike rates between...
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