-Hindustan Times Rohtak: The Jind district administration has successfully completed the pilot project of linking land record with the aadhaar card to check corruption in the revenue department. Jind deputy commissioner Ajit Balaji Joshi said that Union government had identified two villages — Jaipur and Bishrapura — of the district under the pilot project. He said the work of linking land record with aadhaar card has been completed. He said the step would...
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Delhi govt to penalise officials who delay public services
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has decided to deduct salaries of officials if they fail to provide services included in the citizen charter within the prescribed time limit. Previously, an applicant was allowed to claim compensation for delays but the government has proposed to make the process automatic and mandatory by amending the ‘Delhi (Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services) Act 2011’. There are a...
More »Bihar exit poll debacle: Elections have become a media carnival -Siddharth Bhatia
-The Hindustan Times The stereotype of a reporter landing in a new city and then getting political insights from the taxi driver on the way from the airport is not without merit. For a visitor, the first encounter is with the cabbie, and cabbies, as assumed, have not just local knowledge, but much wisdom too. A cabbie’s views often get extrapolated and incorporated into much of the reporting. As true as this...
More »Odisha innovators bag Nasa award for finding solution to tyre bursts -Priya Ranjan Sahu
-Hindustan Times What happens when the tyre of a speeding car bursts or blows up? The obvious answer is an accident along with casualties as the vehicle goes out of control with the driver hardly getting a chance to react. There have been technologies for limiting the impacts of punctures, but there hasn’t been a solution to decrease the chances of a tyre bursting due to overheating. However, a latest innovation has...
More »The stubble trouble: Desperate farmers pick easiest option -Raghbir Singh Brar and Navrajdeep Singh
-Hindustan Times Faridkot/Bathinda: Jagroop Singh owns seven acres of agricultural land in a village of Faridkot district. All of it was under the long-duration paddy (PUSA 44) harvested on October 17. He then had barely 10 days to prepare his field for wheat sowing. The seasoned cultivator did not think twice before putting a matchstick to his paddy crop residue littered all over his field. The stubble went up in flames within...
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