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Unwatched Watchdog by Sugata Srinivasaraju

A PIL questions the very legitimacy of the IB No whereofs to it?     * A PIL filed in and admitted by the Karnataka High Court asks if the IB is “extra-constitutional”     * The IB hasn’t been constituted under an Act of Parliament, does not have a charter of duties     * The British set it up in 1887     * The court has served notices on the home ministry and the IB *** Is...

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Supreme Court appoints Special Investigation Team to probe black money issue

-PTI   The Supreme Court on Monday appointed a high-level Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former apex court judge B P Jeevan Reddy to monitor the investigation and the steps being taken to bring back black money stashed away in foreign banks. Besides Justice Reddy, who will be the chairman of the SIT, the apex court also appointed its former judge, Justice M B Shah as the vice-chairman of the panel. A bench...

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Brazilian to become next chief of UN Food and Agriculture Organization

-The United Nations   A former Brazilian food security minister will become the first person from Latin America to head the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations agency leading international efforts in the fight against hunger. José Graziano da Silva, who has served as a senior regional official for FAO since 2006, will take up the post of Director-General on 1 January next year after beating five other candidates during...

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Food Security: Messy Jam, But Here’s a Map by Ashok Gulati

Ensuring food security to all is one of India’s top policy agendas today. Given a large mass of poverty in the country, it is not surprising and no one would perhaps disagree with the need to achieve this as soon as possible. But the varied policy instruments that can be used towards achieving this goal draw sharp differences among the stakeholders. What is food security? The World Food Summit of 1996...

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Controversial section dropped from draft by Anuja

The basis of the Bill is not at all on the intervention of the Centre in any of the states. This was one section and even by this one section being there The National Advisory Council, led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has dropped a controversial section in a draft legislation on communal violence that opponents have interpreted as placing too much authority on the federal government. “The basis of the Bill...

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