-The Indian Express Bangalore: An analysis of usage of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) programme in 156 of the assembly constituencies in Karnataka, which is headed for elections next month, has revealed a continuous decline over the last three years on several parameters, such as average expenditure per constituency, percentage of households employed and average daily wages. The analysis by the IndiaGoverns Research Institute, an NGO,...
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Rajan Mittal quit Bharti Retail after ED launched probe -Rasul Bailay
-The Economic Times Rajan Mittal resigned as director of Bharti Retail last November, barely weeks after the Enforcement Directorate launched a probe into a controversial $100-million investment by Walmart Stores in Cedar Support Services, the holding company of the retail venture. A Bharti spokesman said Mittal had resigned from the board last year to "take out time for his other commitments" and has been replaced by Bharti Group's general counsel and...
More »Soon, pay your traffic challan online -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Traffic challans will very soon be paid online across the country and will not constitute a court case. The government has written to all states to make online payment of traffic challans mandatory and the ministry of road transport and highways is likely to issue a directive to take challan cases out of the domain of courts. After the intervention of the Prime Minister's Office, the...
More »Interest rates may fall as inflation slows to 3-year low
-The Times of India The inflation rate slowed to a more than three-year low of 5.96% in March on the back of softening vegetable, fruits and milk prices, brightening the prospect of an interest rate cut by RBI while bringing relief for the politically beleaguered government. Lower interest rates would provide relief to thousands of borrowers reeling under the burden of high equated monthly installments ( EMIs) on their home loans. Data released...
More »Judges wanted Bhullar sentence commuted -V Venkatesan
-The Hindu Differing with his brother judges, Justice M.B. Shah had actually voted to acquit Bhullar His plea for mercy on the grounds of delay may have been rejected by the Supreme Court last week but there is one more argument his lawyers can make in their final push to save Devender Pal Singh Bhullar from the gallows: the two judges who confirmed the death sentence in a 2:1 split verdict...
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