-The Telegraph New Delhi: A year after the Supreme Court pulled up 19 states, including Bengal, that did not have a commission to protect children's rights and directed them to set up one, most of these panels exist only on paper. All states/Union territories are required to have a child rights commission under Section 17 of the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005. Twenty-three states now have the panels -...
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After discoms, CAG may get job of auditing telecos -Abhinav Garg
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After getting the mandate to audit power distribution companies from Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government, the comptroller and auditor general may well get another crucial assignment on Monday, if the Delhi high court agrees with its stand. HC is expected to deliver a landmark verdict to decide if CAG has the jurisdiction/powers to audit accounts of private telecom companies. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday gave nod to the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) to audit the accounts of private telecom companies. CAG got the crucial assignment after getting the mandate to audit power distribution companies from the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government. A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and V Kameswar Rao permitted the top accounting body to conduct audit of private telecom companies under the...
More »Outsiders in Kutch’s mini-Punjab: Sikh farmers battling for their land -Satish Jha
-The Indian Express Kutch (Gujarat): Bhajan Singh, 62, remembers the time curious villagers turned up to see a borewell his father Gopal Singh had dug up. The year was 1969 and it was the first time Sumrasar village, near Bhuj in Kutch district, had had a borewell. Few had ever seen it work, as they depended entirely on rainwater for the barely one crop they harvested a year. Originally from Pakistan, Gopal...
More »LPG distributors say scam in the making
-The Hindu New Delhi: Alleging that oil companies are a "law unto themselves" and that a "big scam" was in the making at the cost of countless consumers, the Federation of LPG distributors of India on Saturday decided to take to the streets with some members and threatened to go on a hunger strike until their demands were met. "The Marketing Discipline Guidelines are being used by the oil companies to arm-twist...
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