-The Hindustan Times Traffic on Mathura Road remained affected for almost four hours as thousands of activists of Yamuna Bachav Yatra marched towards the Capital on Sunday. The march stopped just a kilometre ahead of the Delhi border. They are likely to enter Delhi on Monday. “Delhi Police told us to stay in Faridabad for one more night as the government does not want this huge yatra to enter Delhi,” said Sunil...
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Aravallis being gobbled up by land developers-Chander Suta Dogra
-The Hindu Thousands of acres of uncultivable forested hills in Haryana, Gurgaon and Faridabad face the same prospect Gurgaon: Two decades ago when Sunil’s parents sold off 25 acres of their family’s share of land in the Mangar forests of Faridabad, they and other villagers thought the buyers were fools to buy it up because they were assured that they could continue to use it for grazing cattle and firewood. Today, 25-year-old...
More »Joining the dots -Rahul Tripathi
-The Indian Express A series of arrests has helped investigators establish the links between some of the most high-profile terror cases involving Hindu extremists—from Malegaon 2006 to Modasa 2008. RAHUL TRIPATHI looks at what the investigators have found so far—and what they haven’t One cold December morning, Rambalak Dash left his ashram in Chitrakoot on the UP-MP border for a puja he had been called upon to do at a house in...
More »At call centres, women want to leave early. Or just leave -Alok Pandey and Ashish Mukherjee
-NDTV Insecurity is high and morale rock-bottom among women employees in Delhi and nearby Gurgaon, Noida and Faridabad after the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student last month, shows a survey by trade and commerce body Assocham. Assocham or the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India did the survey in the National Capital Region and found the IT industry, especially call centres where women make up over half the...
More »UPA's flagship scheme in CAG net
-The Times of India Houses built for the poor allotted to ineligible beneficiaries, diversion of over Rs 100 crore to unapproved ventures, and a huge lapse in completion of projects mark UPA's flagship programme for urban areas — the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has found serious lacunae and irregularities in the implementation of JNNURM in a nationwide audit that was tabled...
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