-The New York Times Blog The strength and direction of the Indian economy may be up for debate, but one remarkable fact is not: There has been massive growth in the number and wealth of billionaires in India since the economic liberalization measures in 1991. The phenomenon has often been compared to the United States’ experience in the latter part of the 19th century. This was a period evocatively described by Mark...
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Zakia Jafri to File Protest Petition on 2002 Report by Nov 7
-Outlook Ahmedabad: A local court today granted more time to Zakia Jafri to file a protest petition challenging the Closure Report of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) which gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi among others in the 2002 riot cases. The court of metropolitan magistrate B J Ganatra today directed Zakia to either inform the court about the status of the Special Leave Petition (SLP)...
More »LPG Consumers Can Now Fill KYC Form Till Nov 15
-Outlook The government has extended by 15 days the deadline for filling the Know Your Customer (KYC) form by LPG consumers to November 15. In a nationwide exercise to weed out multiple or ghost connections, the state-owned oil firms had previously asked their domestic cooking gas (LPG) distributors to collect and verify duly filled KYC forms from the consumers by October 31. "We have now decided to extend the deadline by 15 days...
More »Grounds for hope -Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
-Frontline After the year-long Jansamvad Yatra and Jansatyagraha, the Ekta Parishad has a written commitment from the Rural Development Ministry to advance land reforms. Celebration and caution. These sentiments dominated the deliberations of senior activists of the Ekta Parishad as they gathered at Delhi’s Gandhi Peace Foundation office on October 18, one week after the organisation and the Union government had signed a 10-point agreement to advance land reforms. The agreement had...
More »Goa Govt to Pitch for Resumption of Legal Mining
-Outlook Goa government will pitch for the early resumption of legal mining in the state during the next hearing in the Supreme Court scheduled on November 2. State Chief Secretary B Vijayan told PTI that the stand of the government is clear that "we should be allowed to resume the legal mining." According to him, the government will file affidavit in the apex court responding to the notices issued to them. "We are...
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