-PTI New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought the responses of the government and the Election Commission on a plea seeking to restrain convicted politicians from running and holding Posts in political parties. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to examine the validity and contours of Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Registration of associations and bodies as political...

-The Pioneer Garhwa (Ranchi): A 45-year-old woman died of hunger at Korta village under Danda Block of Garwa district on Friday, villagers alleged. The woman named, Premni Kunwar, wife of Mutur Mahto did not have anything to eat despite being an Antyodaya card holder. She was managing food from neighbours for the past 15 days, locals said. SDO, Garhwa Pradeep Kumar, who visited the village on the instructions of DC Neha Arora said that...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Politicians of various stripes have started to raise red flags about a provision in a bill that the Narendra Modi government intends to move in the Lok Sabha in the upcoming winter session, which could theoretically allow beleaguered banks and financial institutions to scoop up depositors' money to stop them from going bust. It is called a "bail-in" - a concept coined during the European banking crisis of...

-Frontline.in The Assembly elections have put under intense scrutiny Narendra Modi’s Gujarat model of development which is touted as worthy of replication throughout the country. Audit reports of the CAG provide ample evidence of it being inefficient, corrupt and not beneficial to the common people. THE standard indicators of development, as is understood in theory and practice, comprise a range of indices, and not necessarily the level of private investment in...

-The Financial Express How can the cotton and soybean farmers of Vidarbha and Marathwada supplement their incomes so they can get out of the trap of debt and self-engineered death? That was the theme of Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s ninth edition, four-day agricultural exhibition at Nagpur, called Agrovision, to which I was invited.  A promising beginning has been made. In October last year, the National Dairy Development Board commenced operations. It...