-The New Indian Express In another incident, he got information that 13 engineers of Madurai Corporation were being promoted without proper documents. THENI: It’s 5 am on Saturday and A Ramakrishnan is busy packing his bags. He has to travel for long hours to educate a new batch of enthusiasts about the Right To Information (RTI) Act. This routine on Saturdays, over the past 14 years, has taken him across the State. The...
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'Wheat stocks can be 80% higher than buffer requirement by Apr 1 next year'
-PTI/ Business Standard The government on Friday said wheat stocks in FCI godowns is expected to be 134 lakh tonnes at the start of next fiscal, 80 per cent more than the buffer norm. The government on Friday said wheat stocks in FCI godowns is expected to be 134 lakh tonnes at the start of next fiscal, 80 per cent more than the buffer norm. In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, Food...
More »Jailed Or Punished, With Or Without Trial: How The State Misuses The Law Against India’s Inconvenient Citizens -Mani Chander
-Article-14.com The arrests and continued incarceration of fact-checker Mohammad Zubair, political activist Javed Mohammed and the exoneration of 121 Adivasis accused of terrorism are the latest evidence of how the State adopts extra legal methods of dealing with ‘inconvenient citizens’—including journalists, dissidents, activists or the poorest Indians—to push official narratives of conspiracy and terrorism. The common threads: manipulation or egregious misinterpretation of laws, changing accusations, unknown or untraceable complainants and the...
More »Is India No More World's 3rd Largest Economy? A FactCheck -Mohammed Kudrati
-BOOMLive.in A graphic misleadingly compares India's economic size to its economic growth rate to convey the economy being in bad shape A viral graphic stating that India has fallen from the third largest economy in the world in 2011 to the 164th fastest growing economy out of 193 countries in 2021, is misleading. This is due to two reasons. First, the graphic makes an apple to oranges comparison as it compares India's position...
More »Centre wants to create framework for PPP in farm sector: Agriculture Secy -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Manoj Sinha said work on the framework is ongoing, private players are encouraged to share their inputs With a focus on securing more investments and expertise from the private players in the agriculture sector, the government is keen to create a formal comprehensive framework for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the sector, a senior government official said. Speaking at an event organised by industry body Ficci on the issue, Agriculture Secretary...
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