-The Telegraph Guwahati: Assam today took a step towards becoming the first state in the country to ban all smokeless tobacco products with the state government tabling a bill in the Assembly to this effect. The Assam Health (Prohibition of Manufacturing, Advertisement, Trade, Storage, Distribution, Sale and Consumption of Zarda, Gutkha, Panmasala, etc, Containing Tobacco) Bill, 2013, which was introduced in the Assembly by health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma,...
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Central policy on Raj Bhavan incumbents sowing seeds of mistrust, say activists -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindustan Times Guwahati: Is it a coincidence that the militancy-mauled Northeast has had a large number of retired police, intelligence, army and paramilitary officers as governors? The first among them was general SM Shrinagesh, who took charge of undivided Assam in two phases, the first of which began in 1959. The separatism-troubled Naga Hills were then part of Assam. And now, former Delhi police commissioner KK Paul has replaced former BSF and...
More »A flood of telegrams for PM urging an 'end to corruption' -Akshaya Mukul
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: It will be an unusual Monday morning in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's household. Among the bagful of mail he gets daily will be several telegrams urging him to 'end corruption, give us freedom'. As the 160-year-old telegram service wound down on Sunday, one young man's idea of sending a telegram to the PM on corruption caught the fancy of others in the serpentine queue at the...
More »Cong wants speedy rollout of food scheme in its states-Kavita Chowdhury
-The Business Standard Haryana's Bhupinder Singh Hooda was the other CM to say the state would be ready to roll out the scheme from August 20 Within days of promulgating the food security Ordinance, the Congress on Saturday got into the act of ensuring "speedy implementation" of the scheme in the party-ruled states. Thirteen party chief ministers discussed nuances of the Ordinance with party president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday. The party is...
More »Food security scheme to be launched on August 20
-PTI Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asked the States ruled by the party to implement in "letter and spirit" the food security scheme, which it sees as a "game-changer" in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Ms. Gandhi held deliberations with Congress Chief Ministers on how to implement the food scheme seeking to provide cheap foodgrains to 82 crore people, for which an ordinance was promulgated last week. Party sources said the Chief...
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