-The Times of India TOGI (RAJSAMAND): For once the crowd no longer mobs the district collector; not even in a surging camp of redressal seekers. Instead a nearby counter is mobbed. Up for grabs is a pink slip - the guarantee for an official hearing to all complaints. By the end of the day, grievances ranging from faulty electricity connections, non payment of wages, old age pension, a simple request for work...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Defreeze 11 bank accounts of Ramdev’s trust: Delhi HC
-The Times of India In a Relief to yoga guru Ramdev, the Delhi High Court on Monday ordered de-freezing of 11 bank accounts of Patanjali Yogpeeth Nyas, sealed by the Income Tax department after the Trust allegedly failed to pay the first installment of Rs 75 lakh of the total tax of Rs 34.68 crore. "We direct the attachment order (of bank accounts) be lifted subject to petitioner (Patanjali Yogpeeth Nyas) paying...
More »BPL card more important than brain scan for injured baby
-The Telegraph A baby girl in need of a brain scan has been turned away by every government hospital she has visited in six months because her unemployed single mother doesn't have a BPL card or the money for an MRI. Jhuma Majhi's daughter Brishti, a year and nine months old, was recommended an MRI of the brain last August after falling off a bed and suffering convulsions that have since become...
More »Court upholds Andhra law on microfinance-Viswanath Pilla and Dinesh Unnikrishnan
-Live Mint High court asks state to review law in light of proposed national regulations to govern the sector The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday upheld a law that led to the near demise of the microfinance industry towards the end of 2010, but asked the state government to review the legislation in the light of proposed national regulations to govern the sector. News of the review sent the stock of the...
More »Stampede claims 36 lives at Allahabad station
-Yahoo.com According to eyewitnesses, there were more than 4,000 people on the 150-metre long bridge over Platform No. 6, and many of them were leaning on the railing. ALLAHABAD: At least 36 people died and scores of others injured on Sunday evening when a stampede broke out at the Allahabad Junction teeming with pilgrims returning from the Mahakumbh here. The incident occurred around 7 pm, allegedly when a railing leading to a...
More »