-CNN-IBN Gandhinagar (Gujarat): A report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, tabled before the Gujarat Assembly on Tuesday, notes that more than 5,000 Anganwadi centers in the state did not have toilets as of the last year. The BJP government tabled the audit report on local bodies for the year ended on March 2013 on Tuesday, the last day of the legislature's session. The performance audit of 'total sanitation campaign'...
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Supreme Court panel slams Rajasthan govt, orders mining ban in areas near Sariska
-The Indian Express The central empowered committee of the Supreme Court has asked the Rajasthan government to immediately stop mining activities allowed around Sariska in "blatant violation" of the court's orders and name the officers responsible so that "appropriate action" can be taken against them. The decision to allow mining activities within one kilometre of the Sariska tiger reserve and Jamua Ramgarh sanctuary was taken at a meeting chaired by then acting...
More »Govt to bring in ordinance for auction of coal blocks to private firms
-The Hindustan Times The government plans to put up coal mines for bidding by private steel, power and cement companies and introduce changes in the law to enable commercial mining in the future, signalling its intent to fully open the sector to private players. The new auction-based system will replace the earlier controversial policy of allotting coal blocks based on recommendations of a panel of bureaucrats, which the Supreme Court had struck...
More »83% of winners in Haryana crorepatis
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Money power seems to have emerged the winner again in this round of Haryana assembly elections with an overwhelming 83% of the winning candidates part of the crorepati club. About 75 of the 90 newly elected MLAs in Haryana are crorepatis with BJP leading the pack. Forty of its legislators boast of assets in excess of Rs 1 crore. Though the total number of criminal netas...
More »Over 600 ‘communal incidents’ in UP since LS results, 60% near bypoll seats -Appu Esthose Suresh
-The Indian Express Police records show provocation from all sides: aggressive BJP, desperate Samajwadi Party, shrinking BSP. Moradabad (UP): A third of all "communal" incidents recorded by police in Uttar Pradesh in the 10 weeks following the Lok Sabha election results have occurred in - or on the fringes of - 12 assembly constituencies that are scheduled to go to polls over the next few months. If a larger circle is imagined -...
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