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High alert for third leg of rural polls by Amit Gupta

Heavy security bandobast is in place for the third phase of panchayat Elections which will take place tomorrow in 61 blocks of 20 districts, with many of the areas considered rebel strongholds.This phase covers as many as 999 panchayats where 40,471 candidates are in the fray for 12,011 posts of gram panchayat members, mukhiyas, panchayat samiti members and zilla parishad members. The electorate strength is over 32.58 lakh.“Polling parties have...

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High Court stays polls to Gulbarga Zilla Panchayat

Over 50 per cent quota for women challengedThe Gulbarga Circuit Bench of the Karnataka High Court has stayed Elections to the Gulbarga Zilla Panchayat till further hearing on a petition filed by three persons from Aland taluk challenging the reservation of seats for women exceeding 50 per cent of the total number of seats.The reservation of seats announced for the Jidga and Chinchansur zilla panchayat constituencies has also been challenged.Interim...

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UP food scam: Petitioner Chaturvedi is a compulsive litigant by Shailvee Sharda

He challenged 'socialist' Mulayam Singh Yadav, charging him with possessing disproportionate assets, contested Elections against BJP stalwart Rajnath Singh and is now responsible for all the furore over the foodgrain scam. Vishwanath Chaturvedi, whose PIL became the basis for high court's December 3 order in the scam, is a compulsive litigant. "I have filed some three dozen public interest litigations of diverse nature," he said here on Tuesday. Most of these...

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Legal rights awareness camps for Dalits

In a bid to re-target and empower the Dalit population — especially in States like Uttar Pradesh, which is bound for Assembly Elections in 2012 — the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, under its new chairman P.L. Punia, has decided to organise camps to apprise Dalits of their legal rights.According to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, these awareness camps will be held in all divisions and mandals of...

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'Paid news would finish off journalism unless...'

Media is business, journalism is not. With these stinging words, developmental journalist and Magsaysay Award winner for journalism P Sainath grabbed the attention of the 250 media students attending Mumbai's Sophia Polytechnic's annual lecture, 'Catalyst for Change', on Thursday. The topic was 'Paid News', on which there cannot be a more well-informed speaker than Sainath who has consistently highlighted the menace in his writings. Sainath said since 2008, some 3000 journalists...

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