-The Times of India The government has said that it is ready to probe the Wal-Mart lobbying report. The government is also concerned about the disclosure and is open to an inquiry to know the truth, parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath told reporters outside Parliament on Tuesday. The BJP wants a time-bound judicial probe into the isues Earlier, the row resonated once again in the Parliament on Tuesday leading to adjournment of both the...
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MPs seek revision of NREGA over existing corruption in the scheme
-Jagran.com Parliamentarians on Wednesday raised concerns about the existing corruption in the UPA government's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), saying it needs to be revised to ensure better implementation and reach. Speaking at a seminar on 'Hunger in India: A Silent Emergency', Rajya Sabha member M.S. Swaminathan said the time has come to rework the job guarantee scheme."It has a tremendous potential and government needs to revise it...
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-The Times of India VADODARA/ ANAND: Agri-clinic-cum-agri-business centres that address the needs of farming families should be set up across the country. Father of India's Green Revolution professor M S Swaminathan advocated this on Monday. Eminent geneticist and member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, professor Swaminathan said this while delivering the first Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). IRMA has constituted the memorial lecture series which...
More »Policies goad Indian farmers to suicide: Civil society-Ashok Kumar
-One World South Asia Reducing incomes, stagnating yields, increasing costs of cultivation, fragmenting of land-holdings and reducing of institutions credit facilities plot the graph of farmers' suicides in India. A national consultation and public hearing on framers' suicides being organised by Action Aid in the capital brought together experts and policy critics to evaluate the progress of government initiatives to respond to the ongoing agrarian crisis. Suicides are only one extreme symptom of...
More »Aid pours in for Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party on debut -Jayashree Nandi & Prerna Sodhi
-The Times of India After over a year of campaigning, dozens of protests and exposes against ministers, Arvind Kejriwal officially entered the political arena on Monday. Negating the perception that only big parties can draw hefty funds, the newly launched Aam Aadmi Party collected more than 1.10 crore on the day of the launch, with former law minister Shanti Bhushan alone donating Rs 1 crore. Day one also saw supporters pitching in...
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