-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Ishrat Jahan was not a terrorist, but the three others killed along with her in a fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad nine years ago had alleged terror links, the CBI has concluded in its chargesheet to be filed in the case before the Gujarat high court on Wednesday. The CBI has said the three - Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan...
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-The Business Standard UN report shows holes in govt's food security proposal The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has worked out the cost of malnutrition to the world economy: about five per cent of its annual gross domestic product, or $3.5 trillion, in terms of foregone production and health expenditure. Even more important is the FAO's assessment of potential gains from investment in enhancing the nutritional standards of the population....
More »Uttarakhand: All pilgrims rescued from Badrinath, foodgrain shortage in 170 villages
-PTI DEHRADUN: Rescue of pilgrims stranded in Badrinath came to an end on Tuesday with about 150 of them being safely evacuated even as the administration struggled with the task of supplying relief to remote parts of Uttarakhand where foodgrain shortage has been reported in 170 villages. On the 17th day of the calamity, the task of extricating bodies from the debris and their disposal in Kedarnath also remained a major headache...
More »Security tightened to protect non-Manipuri labourers
-PTI IMPHAL: Manipur government has taken up certain security measures to protect the non-Manipuri migrant labourers following recent attacks on them by unidentified miscreants by exploding grenades with the latest attack occurring on June 27 night in which two non-locals were killed and three others seriously injured here, official sources said on Tuesday. Official sources said various mobile check posts have been set up different places where there was huge concentration...
More »CAG had warned last year about Uttarakhand crisis in making-Himanshu Upadhyaya
-Governance Now A CAG report dated March 15, 2013 had found Uttarakhand sitting on a time bomb, with nearly zero disaster preparedness back in Sept 2012 when the nationwide performance audit was done. Will other states, marked equally poorly in the audit, sit up and smell the coffee? The massive disaster in Uttarakhand has brought to the fore not only the old debate of ecology versus development but also thrown up...
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