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Fast-track BPL status for 4 million families in Maoist zone -Subodh Ghildiyal

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Four million households in Maoist-affected districts are likely to get BPL status without having to wait for another two years when the Socio-Economic Caste Census is expected to be completed. The list of BPL will be revised based on the findings of the census. The shortcut inclusion in the 82 Maoist-affected districts is aimed at making the poor, who fell between the cracks of the poverty...

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PMO official’s visit to CBI office leaves PM exposed

-The Times of India The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) faced its sharpest indictment in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with a senior official's visit to the CBI office to scan and suggest changes to an investigation report on Coalgate attracting the court's severe ire. The court's scathing comments on Shatrughna Singh, a joint secretary in the PMO, and Ashok Bhalla, a joint secretary in the coal ministry, seeking changes in a draft...

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Food Bill stuck as Sharad Pawar too wants debate; govt cannot promulgate ordinance either

-The Economic Times Congress' plan to pass the food security bill in the Lok Sabha by Thursday, even if Opposition tries to block proceedings, ran into trouble after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar insisted on a structured discussion in the House on the issue. The Congress aim was to rush through the bill, after the party rejected main opposition BJP's offer to allow passage of the bill if Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and...

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Building euphoria-Himanshu Upadhyaya

-Frontline   But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...

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Dalit empowerment still a distant dream- Elizabeth Roche and Arundhati Ramanathan

-Live Mint Almost two decades after the Panchayati Raj Act was notified, a key aim of the legislation remains unfulfilled Papapatti/Madurai district: S. Muruganadam, 38, is the Dalit president of the Papapatti village panchayat in Madurai district and a post-graduate in political science. His term ends in 2016 and he has made up his mind not to run for re-election. "I think a panchayat president's post is an important post because only...

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