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MPs want package for micro, small and medium enterprises

-PTI   A strong demand was made in the Lok Sabha today for a package for the micro, small and medium enterprises, which are facing problem on account of the economic slowdown. Members from different parties made the demand while participating in a discussion on the Regulation of Factors (Assignment of Receivables) Bill, 2011. Shailendra Kumar (SP) demanded that Government should set up a special fund to help the MSME sector. Gorakhnath Pandey (BSP) said...

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Dash under ‘duress’ for Lokpal by Sanjay K Jha

The government’s desperate race to redraft the Lokpal bill in time for passage this Parliament session has left political circles uneasy, with even some Opposition leaders conceding the dangers of lawmaking under such abnormal pressure. The Centre too is squirming at this “indecent haste”, prompted by its keenness to avoid another face-off with Team Anna. But it feels it has little choice in a political climate where “confrontationism” is giving the...

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Cabinet meet likely Sunday on Lokpal, food security bills

-The Pioneer The union cabinet is expected to meet here Sunday evening to discuss the Lokpal and the food security bills, said official sources. The cabinet meeting, earlier scheduled for Monday, would now be held Sunday evening, the sources said Saturday evening Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on his way back from Russia Saturday, said the government hopes to bring the Lokpal bill to the cabinet by Sunday. "We are working day and night...

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Letters to the editor-from Jayanthi Natarajan

I write to you in connection with the editorial “India lost the plot at Durban” in The Hindu of 13th December 2011. What prompted me to write to you was the inaccurate assessment of the deliberations in Conference of Parties at Durban and the lack of appreciation in the editorial of India's important contribution towards a possible future arrangement on Climate Change. At the outset, allow me to mention that to...

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Team Anna Hazare's calls to redraw the lawmaking process spell anarchy

-The Economic Times   The movement against corruption that the erroneously labelled 'Gandhian' Anna Hazare has spearheaded has had some positives. For one, it brought into sharp focus wide public anger against the malaise of endemic corruption. Two, it reaffirmed the role of civil society members in intervening and shaping public discourse. And, three, it generally shook up a system inert to, if not actively resistant to, any genuine measures to tackle...

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