The Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate on Tuesday declared that the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team had not found any evidence for prosecuting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and top bureaucrats and police officers and recommended that the investigation in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case be closed. Though magistrate M.S. Bhatt did not pronounce the court's decision on the closure report, he ordered the SIT to give a copy of it, within...
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Offset ban on cotton export by raising floor price by 10%: CACP-Nidhi Nath Srinivas
The government should immediately announce a 10% increase in the floor price of cotton and rice to protect farmer incomes if it imposes a ban on the export of these commodities, India's two most economically significant cash crops, according to the Commission of Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), a body which advises the government on the pricing policy for major farm produce. "Any ban on export is an implicit tax on...
More »Zakia, CJP can file protest plea, says amicus
-The Hindu Zakia Jafri, wife of the Gulberg Society massacre victim Ehsan Jafri, and the Citizens for Justice and Peace can oppose the closure report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) by filing a protest petition in the trial court, according to Raju Ramachandran, a micus curiae in the case. Talking to The Hindu , Mr. Ramachandran, who was appointed a micus by the Supreme Court, said: “In law, the complainant has...
More »Agriculture Ministry may up cotton estimates to 35.2 mn bales for 2011-12
-PTI The Agriculture Ministry is likely to revise upwards the country's cotton production estimate by 3.5 per cent to a record 35.2 million bales for the current marketing year, a government official said. The ministry releases four advance estimates at different stages of crop growth. In its second advance estimate, cotton production was pegged at 34 million bales for the ongoing 2011-12 marketing year ending September. "The cotton production has slightly improved and...
More »India swine flu toll rises to 21
-BBC The death toll in a swine flu outbreak in India since the beginning of this year has risen to 21, officials say. Most of the deaths have been reported from the western state of Maharashtra. Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have also reported deaths. Over 300 others have been infected with the virus, and many of them admitted to hospitals. The cause of the sudden outbreak is not clear. The virus killed more...
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