-The Indian Express Asserting its supremacy over the executive, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that the Centre's approval was not required to investigate officers of Joint Secretary level and above when a constitutional court monitors the probe. In what it described as "substitution of a forum - from a minister to a constitutional court," a Bench led by Justice R M Lodha said the necessity of prior sanction under Section 6A of...
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Media censorship, surveillance rose in India in 2013: report -Venkatesh Upadhyay
-Live Mint Eight journalists were killed in 2013 while covering stories, six of them during the Muzaffarnagar riots New Delhi: More journalists were killed and attempts to censor the media increased across the country this year, said a report titled ‘Free Speech in India 2013' from the media affairs website, the Hoot. Eight journalists were killed in 2013 while covering stories, six of them during the August-September Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh....
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-Press Information Bureau As on 30.09.2013, 13.40 lakh Anganwadi and mini-Anganwadi Centres (AWCs/ mini-AWCs) are functioning out of 13.75 lakh sanctioned AWCs/ mini-AWCs in the country. State-wise details are as given below. The aims and objectives of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme including AWCs are: i) to improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years; ii) to lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of...
More »Onion cheer & tomato tears -Somesh Jha
-The Business Standard Onion prices in wholesale markets of Mumbai declined 48.6%, the steepest among the four metros, compared to October In November, onions, which stoked inflation in recent months and probably played a part in the Congress party's dismal performance in four Assembly elections, turned cheaper in four major cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata - at both the wholesale and retail levels. However, the decline in wholesale prices was...
More »HC asks lawyers to ‘keep an eye’ on homeless in their localities -Aneesha Mathur
-The Indian Express New Delhi: Faced with complaints from NGOs over the harassment of the homeless in the city at the hands of police, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked lawyers associated with a PIL on the issue of night shelters to "keep a vigil in their neighbourhoods" to ensure that the homeless are accommodated at nearby night shelters. With the civic agencies, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), Delhi government,...
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