-The Telegraph Guwahati: A 15-member CBI team, led by deputy inspectors-general of police Anurag Garg and Arun Bothra, will probe the Assam violence. Besides Garg, DIG from CBI special crime zone (I), and Bothra, DIG from the CBI special crime zone (II), the team has two superintendents of police and 11 officers of subordinate ranks. An official source today said the CBI team had set up office at the Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals...
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Unemployment dole on the way out in State?-KPM Basheer
-The Hindu Unemployment dole, introduced in Kerala in 1982, the first State to do so, could soon be a thing of past if Labour Minister Shibu Baby John has his way. “We need to rethink on the unemployment dole as it does not serve any purpose now,” Mr. John toldThe Hindu . The government spends Rs.50 crore a year on the unemployment assistance scheme and there are roughly 3.5 lakh people getting...
More »The lesser half-TK Rakalakshmi
The Guwahati molestation incident throws light on the violence women face overtly and covertly in India, at home and outside. The shocking incident of the beating and molestation of a young woman by a mob in Guwahati in Assam on July 9 has exposed the ugly underbelly of modern, globalised India, where women face violence, covertly and overtly, at home and outside. The incident has also exposed the lackadaisical manner in...
More »Disparity in income getting sharper, NSSO data shows-Asit Ranjan Mishra
-Live Mint In urban India, the ratio of the top and bottom 10% of the economic group increased to 10.9% from 10.1% Economic growth is increasing the income and consumption levels of the average Indian faster than before, but income disparity is getting sharper, especially in the country’s villages, which may require a greater effort aimed at creating jobs in the non-farm sector in rural areas. The increase in inequality is evident from...
More »NHRC notice to J&K, Defence Secretary on fake encounter-J Balaji
-The Hindu The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices, returnable in four weeks, to the Jammu & Kashmir Chief Secretary and the Union Defence Secretary seeking a reply on media reports which claimed that Hilal Ahmad Dar (26) of Aloosa was killed by Army jawans. The security guard is said to have been killed in a fake encounter in Ashtingoo in Bandipora on the night of July 24. Locals allege...
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