-Frontline.in Four years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of the Namami Gange project, the river remains as dirty as ever. WHILE in Varanasi to file his nomination papers for the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi, then the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial nominee, had declared with his characteristic bravado, “I have not come here on my own. I have been invited by mother Ganga.” He said it was his...
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In Delhi, cancellation of 2.5 lakh ration cards sparks tussle between AAP government, bureaucracy -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Questions arise again over Delhi’s welfare delivery system – close on the heels of the starvation deaths of three girls in July. In May, Ram Baran, a resident of Savitri Nagar in Delhi, received a letter from the ration circle office stating that his ration card would be cancelled because he had not collected foodgrains between January and March. The letter added that unless he submitted his Aadhaar number, electricity...
More »Demonetisation findings accessed: Eight reasons why BJP wants DeMo report buried
-TimesNowNews.com Times Now has accessed the demonetisation draft report which has upset the BJP, whose MPs want the report suppressed. And there are eight reasons why the BJP doesn’t want to face the report in Parliament. New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by Congress leader Veerappa Moily, has concluded in its draft report that demonetisation, announced by the Narendra Modi government in November 2016, had led to at...
More »Demonetisation led to 1% drop in GDP, says parliamentary report; BJP bans it
-MirrorNowNews.com The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on Tuesday stalled a parliamentary report which slammed demonetisation. The report mentioned that demonetisation led to a drop of one per cent in the country's GDP. New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on Tuesday stalled the note ban report which slammed the incumbent government's decision of demonetising Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes with effect from November 8, 2016. The report mentioned...
More »BJP Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Won't Say How He Spent Rs 11 Cr Of His MPLADS Fund Despite CIC Order -Akshay Deshmane
-HuffingtonPost.in Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims he is running a transparent government, but his cabinet colleagues are withholding public information. NEW DELHI: Union cabinet minister and Lok Sabha member Narendra Singh Tomar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not disclosed how he has spent over Rs 11 cr of his discretionary fund in his Gwalior constituency, despite directions from the Central Information Commission (CIC), HuffPost India has found. This persistent denial of...
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