-The Times of India As India heads towards a bruising general election, one of the key issues in the minds of both people and political parties is jobs. Big parties and their star campaigners can already be heard harping on the theme. The reason is that the jobs scenario has been decidedly grim for more than a decade. Between 2000 and 2012, jobs have increased at an abysmal rate of just 2.2%...
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Land law comes into force, now pay more for a house -Saubhadra Chatterji
-The Hindustan Times Many ongoing projects including housing and industries will brace for an escalation in costs as the new land law has come into force on Wednesday. The much-touted Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Rehabilitation and Resettlement law-that provides four times hike in rural land price-will apply to all projects where compensations are yet to be given for land acquisition. Industries like the housing or Hotels will be forced to...
More »Hope floats for Kedarnath’s ‘village of widows’ -Amit Bhattacharya
-The Times of India DEOLI VILLAGE (Uttarakhand): Savitri Devi was pregnant with her second child when she lost her husband to flash floods in Kedarnath. She gave birth two months later. Today, her four-month-old son is both a source of joy and a constant reminder of the tragedy. Six months after the June 15-16 deluge, grief still hangs like a fog over Deoli-Bhanigram. Thirty-four women lost their husbands in this gram sabha,...
More »Tourists go hungry as vegetable prices force Manali hoteliers shut kitchens -Suresh Sharma
-The Times of India MANALI: Tourists visiting Manali will find it tough to get food as several Hotels here have shut their kitchens due to the rising prices of onion, tomato, potato, cabbage and other vegetables. Several restaurants and dhabas are not even serving onion paranthas for the breakfast now. Hotels, which used to serve their guests with food from in-house kitchens, are now requesting them to have food outside. Hoteliers say...
More »West Bengal: Saradha scam worth Rs 2,460 crore, report says
-PTI NEW DELHI: The alleged chit fund scam in West Bengal involving the Saradha Group revolves around a total sum of Rs 2,460 crore with 80 per cent of the depositors' monies still remaining unpaid, a latest investigation report has revealed. The report also states that the arrested Saradha chairman Sudipta Sen was in "total control" of all deposits made by his group companies, which are under the scanner for having perpetrated...
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