-The Times of India LUCKNOW: For the Akhilesh Yadav government, the burgeoning unemployment problem comes as a daunting challenge. The 66th round of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report puts the projection of unemployed youth in Uttar Pradesh in the age group of 15-35 at whopping 1 crore by the end of the ongoing 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17). They will be in addition to the backlog of around 32...
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CMs puzzled over implementation of food security programme-Anita Katyal
-Rediff.com While the Delhi and Haryana governments have declared that they are all set to roll-out the food security programme on August 20 -- Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary -- there is confusion among the chief ministers about the implementation of the ordinance which gives the right to people to receive adequate quantity of food grains at affordable prices. Anita Katyal reports. Although the ordinance has provided broad parameters that 75 per cent...
More »Bahuguna refuses to declare dead those missing in Uttarakhand
-PTI Hoping against hope, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna today refused to declare as dead the 5,748 persons missing after the June 16 calamity in Uttarakhand, saying the mission to find them will not be given up. However, as the deadline for finding the missing ended, he said the process of paying monetary relief of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of those dead and missing will begin from tomorrow. But...
More »Oil subsidy expected to balloon-Shine Jacob
-The Business Standard Under-recovery estimated to touch Rs 1.5 lakh cr in FY14 due to rising crude oil prices & falling rupee The fall in the rupee to a new low this week has made the government jittery, as the under-recovery on petroleum products is threatening to touch Rs 150,000 crore in 2013-14, despite phased diesel decontrol and capping of subsidised cooking gas cylinders. According to the petroleum ministry's estimates, for every rupee...
More »I&B wants to know what you are watching -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express The I&B Ministry is Planning to generate real-time data on what the 120 million TV viewing households are watching by putting a chip into the set top boxes (STB). The move comes at a time when dominant television ratings company, TAM Media Research, is facing the heat from the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The move may also raise privacy concerns and invite protests from rights activists but ministry...
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