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Make public expenses of PM's relatives on foreign tours: CIC

The Prime Minister's Office has been directed by the Central Information Commission (CIC) to provide details of the expenditure incurred on the PM's relatives accompanying him on visits abroad. The CIC rejected the PMO's argument that it did not have such records. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Protocol Division of the External Affairs Ministry have both stated they do no have these records with an RTI application shuttling between the...

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Punjab farmers to cultivate in Ethiopia, import output to India

They want State Government to exempt their farm produce from duty A group of Punjab-based farmers on Monday said they are going to grow pulses and oilseeds on 5,000 hectares of land in Ethiopia and import their farm produce to India. “We will start cultivating 5,000 hectares of land in Ethiopia from September this year and plan to cultivate pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane and maize which are always in short supply (in India),”...

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Foreigners Act wrongly invoked against Ilina Sen? by S Arun Mohan and Siddharth Varadarajan

IAWS contests police decision to file FIR against her The Indian Association for Women's Studies (IAWS) has strongly contested the Maharashtra police decision to file an FIR against .Ilina Sen, wife of Binayak Sen, for her alleged failure to inform the police about the participation of foreign delegates at an academic conference organised by the IAWS and the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Vishwavidyalaya (MGAV) in Wardha last week. Prof. Ilina Sen, who...

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EU observers want to watch Binayak's trial by Mohua Chatterjee

Foreign observers will keep a close watch on the Chhattisgarh High Court's hearing on rights activist Binayak Sen's appeal on Monday. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has forwarded to the Chhatisgarh government a request from an eight-member European Union (EU) delegation keen to watch the proceedings in the HC in Bilaspur on January 24. Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh has forwarded the Centre's request to the HC, leaving it to the judiciary...

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India to revisit cotton export ban to keep onions flowing by Sujay Mehdudia

India is understood to have told Pakistan that it is ready to lift the ban on cotton exports if the latter resumes its onion exports through rail and land routes. Official sources in the Commerce Ministry said this was conveyed to Islamabad by the External Affairs Ministry. “The Indian side has conveyed to the Pakistani counterparts that it was ready to revisit the cotton export ban and ceiling issues, if the...

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