-Business Standard Amendments will bar whistleblowers from disclosing info which govt and its agencies are exempted from providing under RTI Act The NDA government has proposed to substantially reduce the kind of information the whistle-blowers will be able to disclose under the Whistleblowers Protection Act, 2011. The government has tabled an amendment bill in the Lok Sabha that reduces the mandate of the law considerably. If the amendment is passed, the whistle-blower would no...
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From plate to plough: Padyatras, politics, policies -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express Rahul Gandhi will help farmers more if he focuses on how policies are implemented On April 30, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi undertook a padyatra of about 15 km in the Vidarbha region to register his sympathy and concerns for farmers. Vidarbha has been reeling under agrarian distress for many years, and has also been an epicentre of farmer suicides. Cotton being one of the primary crops of this...
More »Centre plans 10,000km push for road sector -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government plans a mega push to the crucial road sector and has raised the target to award projects to 10,000 km in the current financial year as well injecting up to Rs 4,000 crore to complete projects stalled due to lack of funds. The plan, which is being steered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also includes the move to allow private developers to exit projects...
More »TB, diabetes drug prices to fall by 30% -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The drug price regulator has capped prices of 30 medicines including antibiotics and those used in treatment of diabetes, tuberculosis and malaria. The move is expected to bring down prices of most of these medicines by 25-30%. However, in some cases the reduction could be by as much as 50%. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), which has the mandate to regulate prices of essential medicines,...
More »Clerical errors, not violation: Greenpeace
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Greenpeace India today claimed the Union home ministry had interpreted the environmental group's "unintentional clerical errors" as violations of foreign funding laws and portrayed its campaigns for clean air, water, and energy as anti-national activities. In a response to the ministry - which has suspended Greenpeace's access to foreign funds and frozen its domestic bank accounts - the NGO has claimed it neither violated the Foreign Contribution (Regulation)...
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