-The Hindu "If we are going to be serious about supporting women's SHGs, then we need a development finance institution" Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's proposal to establish a bank exclusively for women - which he described as the highlight of this year's budget - may have garnered applause from across party lines in Parliament and could be set up as early as October; but that hasn't stopped his Cabinet colleague and Rural...
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Massive irregularities in rural jobs scheme in UP: Jairam
-PTI Lalitpur (UP): Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Monday alleged massive irregularities in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employee Guarantee Scheme in seven districts of Uttar Pradesh and demanded a CBI probe into it. The Union Minister claimed that neither the previous Mayawati regime nor the present Akhilesh Yadav Government has recommended CBI probe into MNREGS irregularities in spite of his repeated appeals. “There had been massive...
More »Durga Vahini, the "moral police"-Smita Gupta
-The Hindu It has seen action on several occasions, starting in 1990 during the riots in Bijnor in western Uttar Pradesh The Durga Vahini or Durga brigade appeared in the early 1990s at the height of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement: its objective was to band together Hindu nationalism’s female “youth.” This organisation, like the Bajrang Dal, too, stresses defence — especially self-defence — of young Hindu women, including training in the use of...
More »Times group plans to sue Zee over Jindal video ‘remarks’ -Archna Shukla
-The Indian Express Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL) is in the process of sending a legal notice to Zee Group following the alleged uncomplimentary statements made by Zee News and Zee Business Editors against the newspapers owned by the company, in their conversations with Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) officials. JSPL chairman and managing director Naveen Jindal had released video clips on Thursday purportedly showing Zee News editor and business...
More »Panel to Look Into Jindal's Charges Against Zee News
-Outlook Broadcast Editors' Association (BEA) today decided to set up a three-member fact-finding committee to look into allegations of industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal against the Editor and other functionaries of Zee News channel. The committee, it said, will delve into the aspects of allegations pertaining to ethical lapses, if any and submit its report in two weeks. BAE, which called an emergency meeting of the executive committee, said that since it...
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