-The Times of India The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday rapped petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily for having violated the model code of conduct with his poll-eve announcement of plans to increase LPG subsidy cap from six to nine cylinders a year. Expressing its strong disapproval of the announcement made on Tuesday - adjudged by the poll watchdog as promise of a financial grant - the EC cautioned Moily to be...
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‘One Billion Rising’ CAMPAign launched in Rajasthan -Mahim Pratap Singh
-The Hindu Jaipur: Twenty-five years have passed since Rajasthan witnessed its last known case of sati; it has been 20 years since Bhanwri Devi of Bhateri was allegedly gang-raped for raising her voice against girl child marriages; and it took 15 years for a gang-rape victim in the J.C. Bose hostel rape case to get justice. With these “landmarks” serving as a background, the ‘One Billion Rising’ CAMPAign was launched in Rajasthan...
More »Statements of Zee chief, editors contradictory: police -Devesh K Pandey
-The Hindu Chandra denies knowledge of any deal between editors and JSPL The Delhi Police Crime Branch has detected several contradictions in the statements of Zee chairman Subhash Chandra and his two editors who have been arrested for allegedly attempting to extort Rs.100 crore from Jindal Steel and Power Limited in the form of advertisements for diluting the CAMPAign against JSPL in connection with the coal block allocation scam. To almost all the...
More »Russia’s insistence on U.N. control over the Internet could see collapse of global meet -Shalini Singh
-The Hindu It’s Russia, China, and Arab states versus E.U., U.S. and Japan; India is silent The December 3-14 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai, could collapse if Russia does not back off from its proposal to bring the Internet under the control of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), thereby subjecting the web to inter-governmental regulation. At the conference’s plenary session, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kazakhstan backed the Russian proposal,...
More »The Colours Of Fallacy -Prasenjit Bose
-Outlook Talking ‘communal’ about FDI trivialises the secular cause If one adds up the number of MPs in the Lok Sabha belonging to political parties that have a stated position against FDI in retail trade, it will certainly be bigger than the number of MPs in favour of FDI. Actually, the figure goes well past the Lok Sabha majority mark of 272. Yet the resolution opposing FDI received only 218 votes...
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