-CivilSocietyOnline.com The thirteenth anniversary issue of Civil Society with the Hall of Fame 2016 was out from the press and I had gone to Anupam Mishra’s home to give him a copy. He looked at the picture of Uncle Moosa on the cover and said: “Yeh aadmi apne chhote kaam se kitna kush hai. Iska kurta bhi khush hai!” It was Anupam Mishra’s trademark humour, delivered with his customary mellifluous touch. But...
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Cabinet clears ordinance to punish people holding banned notes beyond deadline -Suchetana Ray
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Union cabinet cleared on Wednesday an ordinance to penalise those found holding a “high amount” of scrapped banknotes. The Specified Bank Notes Cessation of Liabilities Ordinance makes holding a large number of old Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes a criminal offence that will attract a jail term and a monetary penalty of five times the amount of old cash one is caught with. The ordinance allows exchange...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Of the Rs 15.4 lakh crore worth of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes that were scrapped as a resulted of PM Narendra Modi's November 8 declaration, as much as Rs 14 lakh crore has been deposited in banks. The value of scrapped currency exceeded the government's expectation that as much as Rs 3 lakh crore will not be returned as this would be part of...
More »Official data exposes Centre's inflated claims on success of agriculture insurance scheme -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The number of non-loanee farmers opting for insurance reached 9.7 million in kharif season of 2016 as against 9.8 million in the same period in 2015 On December 7, the Union Ministry of Agriculture press release claimed that that the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) has made impressive progress in 2016. According to the press release, “There has been a quantum jump of more than six times...
More »Anupam Mishra: the gentle but staunch Gandhian -Bharat Dogra
-The Hoot Anupam Mishra was a greatly respected journalist who stayed away from the LIMelight but wrote with insight on water and the environment. Anupam Mishra, who died in Delhi on December 19 at the age of 68, had been one of the most respected persons in the Hindi media for at least two decades. For several years he had been the editor of Hindi Gandhi Marg, a much-admired journal with...
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