-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today warned Bengal and Andhra Pradesh with "consequences" if they failed to respond to an eight-month-old directive relating to a law that has led to arrests over "objectionable" Internet posts. On January 19, the court had asked all states and Union territories to respond to a central advisory that said no arrests should be made under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act without sanction...
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Muzaffarnagar 2013 – Violence by Political Design: Centre for Policy Analysis
-Kafila.org This fact-finding exercise was coordinated by the CENTRE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS. Team members were the human rights activist and former civil servant Harsh Mander; former Director-General of the Border Security Force, E N Rammohan; Professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of Jawaharlal Nehru University; National Integration Council member John Dayal; senior journalist Sukumar Muralidharan and CPA Director and senior editor Seema Mustafa. Introduction and Overview The first impression of the Muzaffarnagar countryside, now green...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: While ministers toy with all kinds of ideas to curb consumption of oil, including bizarre ones such as shutting down petrol pumps at night, it might help if they looked inwards. For, the biggest and most profligate oil consumer in the country is the government itself. Petrol flows like water in the government. Not just ministers and officials of the central and state governments, even PSUs...
More »July inflation accelerates to 5.79%: Government
-PTI NEW DELHI: Rising prices of onions and other vegetables pushed inflation to a five-month high of 5.79 per cent in July even as the government and RBI battled to stabilise the rupee. Inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was at 4.86 per cent in June. In July 2012, it was 7.52 per cent. The July number is above the Reserve Bank's comfort level of 4-5 per cent inflation. This is...
More »Haryana CM Hooda dismisses Ashok Khemka’s allegations
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday refuted allegations levelled by IAS officer AshokKhemka that the beneficiaries of land deals in Faridabad included his "aunt". Hooda also rejected allegations of irregularities in land deals levelled by Khemka in his recent communique to the chief secretary. Hooda said while the woman mentioned by Khemka was an inhabitant of his native village Sanghi, she was no relative...
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