-The Telegraph Income tax officials today searched the house and two dozen properties of a liquor baron said to be close to Mayawati, the simultaneous raids apparently throwing up a chest that needed gas-cutters to prise open. TV reports claimed the chest — found in the basement of a Noida mall said to be owned by Gurdeep Singh Chadha — could be stashed with notes worth over Rs 100 crore, but late...
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Govt raises tamper doubt on Radia tapes
-The Telegraph A government report on the Niira Radia tapes that was submitted to the Supreme Court today mentioned discrepancies between the original recordings and the conversations broadcast by the media, suggesting they may have been tampered with. The report was submitted in a sealed cover to the bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly. It was not made public but Justice Singhvi read out parts of it that said...
More »East UP tribals still bear the burden of poverty by Binay Singh
The tribals in the Maoist-affected districts, including Mirzapur, Chandauli and Sonbhadra of East Uttar Pradesh, seem to have been born with a burden -- poverty. With almost all the major political parties promising special packages for various regions of the state to garner votes, the situation for those living below poverty line in the region is as desperate as was a couple of decades back. Take for example Katwaru, a member...
More »Eye on shorter list, Bengal for fresh BPL survey by Pranesh Sarkar
The cash-strapped Bengal government has persuaded the Centre to conduct a fresh survey of the below poverty line (BPL) population in the state. Panchayat and rural development minister Subrata Mukherjee had tossed up the proposal at a meeting with his central counterpart Jairam Ramesh at Budge Budge yesterday. “Poverty estimates by the Centre and the state are markedly different…. So we decided to run a check on whether the Left Front government...
More »Govt converges MPLAD & MGNREGA to create more durable assets
-PTI The government on Monday announced convergence of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme with the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA for creating more durable assets in the country. "Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister Srikant Kumar Jena has approved convergence of MPLAD scheme with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)," an official statement said here. According to the statement, it was done after government received representations to converge...
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