-Eastern Panorama It’s been almost two months since a 6.9 magnitude earthquake left the Himalayan state of Sikkim devastated. Nine families of Ralak village in Tingchim Mangshilla Gram Panchayat in the North District of Sikkim are still living in make shift relief camps with the mothers cuddling their children under blankets to give them comfort and warmth in the cold November nights. As snow has already covered the mountains visible from...
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Elusive jobs by TK Rajalakshmi
It is getting harder for jobseekers to return to gainful employment and for new entrants to find adequate jobs, says the ILO. THERE is little in the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) annual projection of job growth to cheer about. The year 2012 has been described as a year of stark reality. A third of the global workforce is currently unemployed or poor; that is, 200 million members of the 3.3-billion-strong global...
More »Twin gains from 2G verdict by MJ Antony
The power of judicial review envelopes natural resource distribution The tsunami created by the 2G spectrum judgments of the the Supreme Court last week has almost mopped up the ripples they made in the legal sphere. However, they deserve respectful consideration for their discussion on two hot issues that have been agitating public mind in recent years. The first is the nature and ownership of natural resources, like air waves and spectrum,...
More »Google removes ‘objectionable' content
-The Hindu Following a Delhi court order, Google on Tuesday said it has removed from its Indian sites content that were found ‘objectionable' by the court. “We only removed specific content that was identified or was the subject of the court's order from local domains of Search, YT (YouTube), Blogger and Orkut,” the United States-based Internet giant said in a statement. “This step is in accordance with Google's long standing policy of responding...
More »Jairam Ramesh proposes concurrent audit of rural welfare schemes by Urmi A Goswami
The rural development ministry has mooted the idea of concurrent evaluation of welfare schemes. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has put forward a proposal to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, outlining the proposed concurrent evaluation network to improve the efficiency and quality of outcomes of all rural development schemes. The government's annual budget for rural development comes second only to defence. In the current fiscal, the ministry's allocation (including spend on drinking...
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