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Nationwide strike by trade unions today, essential services likely to be hit -Saubhadra Chatterji

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Government transport in Haryana, Karnataka and Telangana, industrial areas in the National Capital region, hotels in Himachal Pradesh and banks and insurance offices across India may not function on Friday as central trade unions will hit the streets for a general strike. Last year, the trade union’s strike saw an estimated 15 crore workers take the day off. “This year we expect the figures to be higher,” said...

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Full circle in Singur

-The Hindu The Supreme Court’s verdict on the Singur land acquisition issue is a re-statement of first principles relating to the limitations of ‘eminent domain’. By quashing the entire land acquisition process done by the erstwhile Left Front government in West Bengal, the court has reiterated that the term ‘public purpose’ cannot be arbitrarily invoked to acquire land and hand it over to a private party. One of the two judges...

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Singur Tata plant: Supreme Court quashes acquisition, orders Bengal govt to return land in 12 weeks

-The Indian Express Farmers who got compensation from the govt will not return it because they were deprived of their livelihood for the last ten years, the court said. New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday quashed the land acquisition in West Bengal’s Singur by the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya-led CPM government in 2006 for allotting it to Tata to set up its Nano car factory. The court held that the acquisition could not be...

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Beyond the predictive text -Anil MAMmen

-The Hindu When knowledge gained is not acknowledged, and the textbook is considered the sole source of answers, education becomes a foreign language. A critique of rote learning is an educational cliché. Much has been written about it and almost every educator will passionately argue against it. However, the textbook still continues to be the holy grail of learning. You can participate in activities, test yourself, memorise information and learn. But don’t...

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How many traders does India really have? -Sachin P MAMpatta

-Livemint.com Revised tax data reveals the numbers of traders to be a small proportion of the 20 million demat accounts required for trading in the stock market Revised tax data that seeks to clarify the number traders in the stock market actually raises more questions than it answers. There were 590,000 individuals who recorded short-term capital gains or losses during FY12, according to the previous tax data released in April. The maximum...

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