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Alleged violence by Kanwarias: Supreme Court to lay down guidelines to prevent mob vandalism -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In the wake of recent violence in parts of northern India, allegedly by Kanwarias, the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday decried what it said is the increasing lawlessness and vandalism indulged in by religious groups and said it would lay down guidelines to prevent vandalism by mobs. The top court further said the destruction of private property, even if no FIR is fiLED, is a cognizable...
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-The Hindu There needs to be a road map to rescue private Industrial Training Institutes from their weak state Small shops, basements, tin sheds and godowns. These are not random workplaces but places where private Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) are running in the country. Disturbing facts such as these come from the report of the Standing Committee on Labour (2017-18) headed by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirit Somaiya, on the “Industrial Training...
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-PTI India's largest lender State Bank of India, which suffered a staggering net loss of Rs 6,547 crore during 2017-18, LED the pack in penalising its customers for not maintaining minimum account balance. New Delhi: As many as 21 public sector banks and three major private sector lenders collected a whopping Rs 5,000 crore from customers for non-maintenance of minimum balance in their accounts in 2017-18, according to banking data. India's largest lender...
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-Livemint.com The job of policy strategists is always to identify the binding constraints to growth and then try to figure out which policies will help ease them Economists of a certain vintage will remember the old development models in which rapid economic growth was held back by three key constraints. The first was the savings constraint. A poor country such as India could not save enough of its annual national income to sustain...
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