-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A common north Indian staple, the arhar or tur dal has touched Rs 180 per kg in the retail market. Across Delhi, price of most other dals too is well over Rs 100, having marked an increase of Rs 10-30 per kg since early September. Where tur is in the range of Rs 145-Rs 180 in packaged form, dhuli masoor is between Rs 124 and Rs...
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Aadhaar, rights and the state -Usha Ramanathan
-The Indian Express The problem is that Aadhaar was never about individual choice, and was never intended to be voluntary. Nandan Nilekani’s plea that the Supreme Court “tweak” its order of August 11 in his article in these pages (‘Why Supreme Court judgment on Aadhaar calls for an appeal’, September 15) is innocent of the experience that people have had with the unique identification (UID) project in the past five years....
More »'Poor starving man will shed his privacy rights for Aadhaar' -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu People are hit hard after SC confined use of Aadhaar to PDS and LPG schemes, says Centre The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that a poor starving man will have no second thoughts about shedding his privacy rights to enrol for Aadhaar, as it gets him a square meal and earnings. With this, the government asked the Supreme Court to not stand in the way of crores of citizens...
More »The wrong response to dengue -Sujatha Rao
-The Indian Express Delhi lost the window of opportunity to avoid an outbreak because of a governance deficit; first because the state was in election mode and then because of the AAP’s internal squabbles. The past few weeks have witnessed substantial media coverage on the dengue outbreak in Delhi. Heartrending stories of clearly avoidable deaths gave the crisis a human face. Focusing on Delhi, most sought to expose the lack of...
More »High value transactions by politicians under FIU scanner -Appu Esthose Suresh
-The Indian Express The FIU generated 17 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) related to PEPs in the last one year. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has stepped up its surveillance on high value transactions by politicians, senior bureaucrats and their immediate relatives who fall under the “politically exposed persons” (PEP) category. According to sources, the FIU generated 17 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) related to PEPs in the last one year. All these cases...
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