-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Three years of Right to Education has resulted in expansion of schools with 98% of habitations having primary schools within one kilometre and 92% habitations having upper primary schools within three kilometres. The government has now decided to shift the focus on quality of education and decided to formulate national standards for schools' performance to keep students and parents well informed. Making a presentation on...
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With Teesta, Veerappa Moily clears 65 projects in just two weeks
-The Financial Express Veerappa Moily says environment will be protected but won't be biased against industry. After Posco and Tawang, environment minister M Veerappa Moily has cleared the state-owned NHPC's 520 MW Teesta-IV hydro-electric project in Sikkim, thus having approved three big projects in three days, which were stuck despite having clearances from all other statutory and related bodies. Veerappa Moily, who approved the Teesta project on January 9, said at the Express...
More »Something went wrong, Centre tells SC
-PTI It could have been done in a more refined manner, it says The Centre on Thursday admitted before the Supreme Court that something went wrong with the coal blocks allocation and that it could have been done in a more refined manner. "We took the decision in good faith but something turned out to be wrong," Attorney-General Goolam E. Vahanvati told a three-judge Bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha. "In hindsight, we can...
More »Greenpeace demands cancellation of Mahan coal block-Sujay Mehdudia
-The Hindu Greenpeace India said the Power Ministry had informed CBI that it did not recommend Hindalco for the Mahan coal block. Questioning the non-transparent manner in which the Mahan coal block was allocated, Greenpeace India on Tuesday demanded cancellation of the coal block and sought a thorough enquiry into the role of Essar Power and the madhya pradesh government in the whole issue. The demand by Greenpeace comes close on the heels...
More »MP: Ten Tribals Killed as Mine Caves In
-Outlook Satna (madhya pradesh): Ten tribals, including a minor girl, were buried alive when a limestone mine caved in at Turra village in the district today, police said. Two women are still trapped under the debris and efforts are on to rescue them, they said. The mishap occurred this afternoon when the labourers were working in a pit said to be 20-foot deep. The deceased hailed from village Taagi Paachit. The deceased have been identified...
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