-The Hindustan Times Rapping the government for its failure to timely implement the competitive bidding mechanism for allocation of coal blocks, CAG on Friday said part of the Rs. 1.86 lakh crore loss could have been partially tapped had the procedure been put in place earlier. In its report, tabled in Parliament, CAG said 25 firms including Essar Power, Hindalco, Tata Steel, Tata Power and Jindal Steel and Power were benefited to...
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Indians bad organ donors, don’t accept brain death: Doctors-Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India Indians are not only bad organ donors, but also averse to accepting brain death as the end of human life. Doctors say most Indian families think their near and dear ones have a chance to recover till their hearts beat. This slow acceptance of brain death — patients who have suffered complete and irreversible loss of all brain functions and are clinically and legally dead — is seriously affecting...
More »Don’t come on fishing trips, warns Berne-Ashis Ray
-The Times of India Indian government would be in serious breach of its international obligations if it discloses names of Indians having Swiss bank accounts, other than being compelled to do so by the judiciary. Speaking to TOI against the backdrop of the recent agitations by Anna Hazare and yoga guru Baba Ramdev for recovery of black money, a spokesman for the federal finance ministry in Switzerland said India "cannot make public"...
More »Mamata Banerjee's toon tyranny to cost Rs. 50,000
-The Hindustan Times The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal now has to pay for the cartoon row, literally. On Monday, the state human rights commission ordered it to pay a compensation of Rs. 50,000 each to Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and his neighbour, who were arrested for circulating a cartoon that poked fun at Banerjee over the sacking of then railway minister Dinesh Trivedi. The arrests saw the government being dubbed "undemocratic", which...
More »Monsoon likely to retreat in September-Rituraj Tiwari
-The Times of India Though rains have lashed most parts of the country in the past few days, raising hopes of wiping out deficiency, a strong likelihood of the emergence of rain-interrupting El Nino weather pattern in September is still keeping weathermen on tenterhooks. The El Nino conditions, known to cause dry weather, are likely to disrupt the monsoon's progress which has reduced the overall rain deficit from 19% in July to...
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