-The Hindu Locals allege Coca-Cola is to blame for the rising water crisis in the area Varanasi: Holding it responsible for the aggravation of water crisis in the area, village councils here have opposed Coca-Cola's plans of expanding its existing bottling plant at Mehdiganj, 20 km from here, and called on the government to stop the company's current groundwater extraction. Fifteen panchayats or village councils here have asked the Central Ground Water Authority...
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Cobrapost sting: RBI gets stricter on money laundering, banks ask customers to resubmit IDs -Sangita Mehta
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: If you get a phone call from your long-time banker asking you to resubmit your name and address proofs, don't be surprised or irritated. It is the fallout of the Reserve Bank going beyond the cobrapost.com expose on unethical practices of banks, forcing them to go back to the drawing boards to weed out bogus and wrong documentation that allowed many people to open accounts and launder...
More »Private forecaster predicts normal monsoon this year
-The Times of India Early indications look good for this year's monsoon. A week before the India Meteorological Department makes its prediction for the 2013 season, a private weather analytics firm has forecast normal rains in the country, which it said is expected to be 103% of the season's average of 89cm. Private forecaster Skymet said central India is likely to have the least fluctuation from normal through the June-September season, which...
More »Odisha Acquires 2,100 Acres of Land for POSCO: Report
-Outlook Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has acquired 2,100 acres of land for the proposed mega steel project by Posco-India in Jagatsinghpur district. "State-owned Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) has acquired 2,100 acres of land of which 546 acre had been handed over to Posco. Rest 1,554 acres is ready to be handed over to Posco," the status paper prepared by the state government said. Another 600 acres of land for the purpose was expected...
More »NREGA in Karnataka, seat by seat, year by year -Johnson TA
-The Indian Express Bangalore: An analysis of usage of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) programme in 156 of the assembly constituencies in Karnataka, which is headed for elections next month, has revealed a continuous decline over the last three years on several parameters, such as average expenditure per constituency, percentage of households employed and average daily wages. The analysis by the IndiaGoverns Research Institute, an NGO,...
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