-The Times of India The government is moving swiftly to build a consensus over the move to allow foreign Investment in the multi-brand retail sector with the commerce, industry and textiles minister Anand Sharma writing to three key state chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Odisha to seek their support. Sharma has been trying to build a consensus and has met several chief ministers to draw their support to the move....

-The Hindu Developed countries pledge no funds; EU feels it was a waste of time Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanti Natarajan smiles when she says India’s known stand on climate change mitigation has been accepted. But the smile is replaced by a frown when someone asks if the developed countries have pledged any money to help the developing countries. No, she says, adding valiantly that India does not want to commodify...

-The Hindu Today marks seven years of protests against the Posco project June 22 marks the seventh year of the struggle against the Posco project in Odisha. It was on this day in 2005 that the Odisha government and the South Korean steel company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for what was stated to be the single biggest case of foreign Investment in the country. Though the government has acquired over...

Highway users should brace for paying toll even after the private road developer or the government recovers the capital Investment with the interest. A new plan finalized by the government has proposed that road users would pay user charge for "efficient" operation and maintenance of the highway stretches in perpetuity. Under the new model, the highways ministry wants to levy a fee for projects taken up under short-term operation-maintenance-transfer (OMT) contracts...

-The Hindu Differences galore over the commitments made at the Earth Summit As the leaders met in a mountain-girdled Brazilian town for the crucial official round of discussions on the Rio+20 text, what was most noticeably missing was the kind of excitement that was witnessed two decades ago, when more than 172 governments, as many as 108 of them sending their heads of state, participated for the first-of-its-kind global awakening event. The...