-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Raising farm income could well be the agenda for 2019 general elections and well aware of this is the Narendra Modi government, which is leaving no stone unturned to lure this vote bank. Navigating this agenda for the government is Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. Aware of the challenges of the price sensitive market, Singh said, “agriculture markets cannot be...
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Muzaffarnagar DM Opposes Yogi Govt, Says Can't Withdraw Riot Cases Due to Administrative Reasons -Qazi Faraz Ahmad
-News18.com In March this year, the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh had initiated the process to withdraw 131 cases related to the riots in 2013. Lucknow (U.P.): The Muzaffarnagar district administration in its report to the government has advised that the withdrawal of 113 cases related to Muzzaffarnagar and Shamli riots would not be advisable on an administrative level. In March this year, the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh...
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-The Hindu Court rejects road rage theory of U.P. police. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday did not buy the Uttar Pradesh Police’s version that the Hapur lynching of two men by cow vigilantes, leading to the death of one of them, was a “road rage” incident which turned fatal. Instead, a Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, ordered the Inspector General of Police, Meerut division, to conduct a...
More »DCW to conduct social audit of all shelter homes for girls, women in Delhi
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Delhi Commission for Women has set up an expert committee to conduct a detailed social audit of all shelter homes in the capital after sexual abuse cases at such homes in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh came to light. DCW said the committee, comprising academicians, lawyers, mental health experts and social workers, would be required to submit its report in three months. It will be mandated to inspect and assess...
More »Quota Won't Guarantee Employment as There Are No Jobs, Says Nitin Gadkari
-PTI "One school of thought is that we must consider the poorest of the poor section in every community." Aurangabad: Stating that reservation will not guarantee employment as jobs are shrinking, Union minister Nitin Gadkari yesterday said there is a “school of thought” which wants policymakers to consider the poorest of poor in every community. Gadkari made the remarks in response to reporters’ questions on the ongoing agitation by the Marathas for reservation...
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