-NDTV Solapur: Drought has tightened its grip over maharashtra. But ask the people of the drought hit village of Ropala in Solapur district, the epicentre of Maharahstra's drought, and they will tell you it is a crisis created not by nature but political clout. The villagers live just a few miles from the Ujani dam, one of maharashtra's biggest, but don't receive a drop if its water. They claim it's because influential people divert...
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My mother deserves pardon if Dutt does: blasts convict's daughter -Mohan K Korappath
-The Hindustan Times Daughter of 1993 blasts convict Zaibunnisa Kazi, Shagufta, is set to pull out all stops to try and prevent her mother from going back to jail. In wake of the hue and cry over support for actor Sanjay Dutt from the crème de la crème of the society, Shagufta entered into the fray arguing that if Dutt could be pardoned, so could her mother, as both had been convicted...
More »Minorities in one state can't run trusts in another: Supreme Court -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express In order to enjoy minority status, an institution not only requires to be set up by people from minority categories in a state but also administered by them, the Supreme Court has ruled. Making it clear that concession under Article 30 is not absolute but subject to restrictions, a Bench of Justices S S Nijjar and M Y Eqbal said that members of a linguistic minority in one...
More »EC says lack of qualification not tantamount to disqualification -J Balaji
-The Hindu The Election Commission has given yet another significant opinion - it has rejected a petition seeking disqualification of 11 nominated members of the maharashtra Legislative Council under Article 191 (1) (e) of the Constitution. "In our Constitution, ‘qualifications' and ‘disqualifications' are two different concepts and ‘lack of qualification' will not tantamount to ‘disqualification," it said. The Commission - Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath and Election Commissioners H.S. Brahma and S.N.A. Zaidi...
More »Chavan urged to look into plight of MGNREGA workers
-PTI NAGPUR: A representative of MGNREGA workers has written a letter to maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, drawing his attention towards the plight of persons employed in Vidarbha under the Centre's flagship rural job programme. In the letter, advocate Vinod Tiwari, a leader of MGNREGA Workers Employment Rights Action Committee, has requested Chavan to look into the plight of workers and issue necessary instructions to officials concerned. The committee has alleged that they...
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