NINe persons accused in the 2006 Malegaon serial blasts that left 31 dead got bail on Saturday. The Maharashtra ATS had arrested them claiming that they belonged to outlawed SIMI and aided a Pakistani in carrying out the attacks. The NIA, which has taken over the probe after Swami Aseemanand's confession that a saffron group was behind the blasts, did not oppose bail. Two of the NINe, Shaikh Mohd Ali Alam Shaikh...
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Lavasa Corp officials face 5 years in jail
-The Times of India The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Friday filed a criminal complaint against Lavasa Corporation and 15 people, including NINe directors and six senior officials, for alleged violation of environmental laws. Sources in the ministry of environment and forests said that with this final pre-condition for clearance met by the Maharashtra government, the Centre would soon clear the project allowing work to continue on the first phase of...
More »Relief eludes 44 deemed ‘unworthy’
-The Telegraph Nearly four dozen deemed universities, found unfit for the tag by a review panel two years ago, have got no respite from another committee that was set up under Supreme Court instructions to re-examine their deficiencies. A three-member panel of current and former HRD ministry officials heard each of the 44 varsities deemed “unworthy” of the label and decided not to differ from what the review panel had said. The ministry...
More »Why our media is anti-people by Markandey Katju
To understand the role which the media should be playing in India we have to first understand the historical context. India is presently passing through a transitional period in its history: a transition from a feudal agricultural society to a modern industrial society. This is a very painful and agonising period. The old feudal society is being uprooted and torn apart; but the new, modern, industrial society has not yet been...
More »Global food prices drop to 11-month low in October, UN agency reports
-The United Nations Food prices dropped to an 11-month low in October, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, while adding that they are still higher than last year and very volatile. FAO’s Food Price Index averaged 216 points last month, down 4 per cent from September, the agency said in a news release. The index is a measure of basic food prices at the global level. “The drop was...
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