-The Business Standard 42% households that sought employment under MGNREGA and on whose land work was undertaken, did not come back to work on MGNREGA According to a study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and non-governmental organisation (NGO) Sambodhini, 11 per cent of those who used labour under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for work on their fields recorded a shift from traditional agriculture to horticulture. The...

-The Hindu Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named Gulab Chand Kataria, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from rajasthan, in the supplementary charge sheet it filed on Tuesday in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The former rajasthan Home Minister is the second prominent BJP leader to be named in the case after the former Gujarat Home Minister, Amit Shah. Sessions court in Mumbai has issued...

-The Hindu The south leads in the number of medical and nursing seats, with for-profit private colleges dominating the scene. It will take major capacity expansion in the government sector to meet WHO norms on access to health professionals. India has achieved major organisational and technological successes but the health system's performance is abysmal. This cannot be attributed to poverty. It is poor health that places India 134th in the Human Development...

-The Hindu Jaipur: rajasthan is set to play a major role in solar and renewable energy, according to its Governor Margaret Alva. "Energy is the key to progress. At the same time, it is a big challenge too. rajasthan is a national leader in solar energy and under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, a majority of the solar projects are located in rajasthan. In wind energy, India is globally positioned at...

-The Economic Times An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, on Wednesday approved Rs 511-crore assistance for rajasthan, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh - the states affected by floods and droughts in 2012. Further, an additional grant of Rs 256 crore was given to Maharashtra for rejuvenation of orchards. However, the high-level committee didn't take a decision on extending the duty-free import of oil cakes for...