-The Business Standard Ruling BJD wants to make the scheme the face of its campaign ahead of upcoming polls Bhubaneswar: When one logs on to the official website of the Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation and food supply ministry, a large banner of the rice at Re 1 a kg scheme welcomes visitors. The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) wants to make the scheme the face of its campaign ahead of upcoming...
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Court verdict embarrasses Mamata government over newspapers in libraries -Monideepa Banerjie and Abhinav Bhatt
-NDTV A year and a half after Mamata Banerjee's government ordered the removal of most English-language newspapers from all state run libraries, the Calcutta High Court has undone the decision. The court today ruled that the most-circulated newspapers in West Bengal, which include The Telegraph and Anand Bazar Patrika, must be made available for readers. In March, the government had banned all English dailies and several other vernacular ones from more than 2000...
More »Undertrial can be MP, but not cop: SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A person facing murder trial can contest Elections, become an MP and even a minister in the Union government, but pendency of a criminal case will not entitle him to a job in the lowest rung of a police force. This is the gist of the Supreme Court's ruling, which set aside concurrent judgments of the Central Administrative Tribunal and the Delhi high court allowing a...
More »Food Bill: Govt may take a call today
-The Indian Express The food security law is back on the Cabinet agenda with the government all set to take a call on Wednesday on whether it should take the ordinance route on the subject. The subject was not taken up earlier despite being listed for Cabinet discussion a couple of weeks ago after parties like the SP signalled that they would oppose it if the government decided to issue an ordinance...
More »Exclusion as policy -TK Rajalakshmi
-Frontline Attempts by the Congress-led UPA government to adopt the ordinance route to pass the Food Security Bill fail as the opposition parties are more or less united in seeking a Bill that provides universal PDS coverage. THE National Food Security Bill (NFSB), 2013, touted as the biggest game changer for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in the 2014 parliamentary Elections, will go through yet another round of discussions...
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