Close associates and friends fondly remembered Gandhian social activist L.C. Jain at a prayer meeting held in his memory at the Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPC) here . The former High Commissioner and former Member of the Planning Commission passed away on Sunday after an illness. Separately the Planning Commission passed a resolution at a condolence meeting chaired by Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia recalling Mr. Jain's extraordinary services to the nation....
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India’s micro vision by Samar Halarnkar
Time magazine picked him as one of 100 people shaping our world. Today, he’s held responsible for bringing an exciting, inspirational business into disrepute. Oh, and his wife says he beat her and snatched their son. There could not be a more controversial torchbearer than Vikram Akula for an industry as quintessentially Indian as microfinance, the business of providing the poor with loans, as small as R5,000, secured not with...
More »Country grappling with mixed burden of diseases: Azad by Aarti Dhar
As the country grapples with a “mixed burden” of diseases that beset the developing as well as developed countries, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said adequate research was needed to deal with the challenge of non-communicable and re-emerging diseases. Addressing the centenary celebrations of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) here, Mr. Azad said as the country moved from a developing nation to the...
More »‘Corruption in media affects the health of democracy' by MoHAmmed Iqbal
The “paid news syndrome” in the media should be resisted as part of a larger struggle for democratic rights because corruption in the media directly affects the health of democracy. The struggle has to be waged in the context of media's corporatisation, monopolistic trends and structural decline. These views emerged at a day-long seminar on “Abridging Freedom and Fairness of the Media: Combating Challenges,” organised by the Rajasthan Working Journalists' Union,...
More »Ensure all NREGA workers get their due: Sonia to PM by Seema Chishti
National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi has requested Prime Minister ManMoHAn Singh to give “suitable directions” to rescue the MNREGA and ensure that all workers get paid in accordance with the Minimum Wages Act (1948). In a letter dated November 11, Sonia Gandhi, who is also UPA chairperson, has appended a 10-page note on the subject. The note details the concerns and outlines the legal arguments in support of paying workers...
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