-The Hans India Warangal: Hunger and starvation coupled with denial of rights provide a fertile ground for the growth of Left Wing Extremism (LWE). The flustered foRest-dwellers of the four districts – Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam — who had been struggling against the might of the State, represented by a despotic foRest department, appears to be losing their direction for the means of livelihood as the FoRest Rights Act remained a ‘paper...

-PTI In a letter to Niti Ayog Task Force Head Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Gandhi raised concerns about the reduced budgetary allocation to the ministry, saying it will impact programmes that tackle malnutrition, issues of women and child welfare schemes. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has asked the Niti Aayog to postpone the decision on Restructuring of funding pattern of social sector schemes to next fiscal year, citing lack of...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India is set to have a stronger consumer protection law with its own version of class action suits. As the term is usually defined, a class action suit is one in which one or several persons sue on behalf of a larger group of persons, referred to as "the class". However, the Indian version will not allow individuals to sue on behalf of a larger...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court will tomorrow examine two National Green Tribunal orders that slapped "environmental compensation" fees on diesel and petrol tourist vehicles travelling between Manali and Rohtang and Restricted the number of tourist vehicles to 1,000 a day in this Himachal stretch. Besides the fees - Rs 2,500 on diesel vehicles and Rs 1,000 on those that run on petrol - the tribunal had also imposed an additional...

-Hindustan Times A dominant feature of the first year of Narendra Modi's leadership is the quiet dismantling of India's imperfectly realised framework of welfare and rights, covertly, by stealth.   A declared pro-corporate agenda, such as the land acquisition ordinance, proved politically messy and costly. Therefore, the government resorted instead for an enfeebling of the welfare architecture of the country through a combination of fiscal withdrawals, ignoring even legally mandated obligations.   But this attracted...