-Frontline.in Four years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of the Namami Gange project, the river remains as dirty as ever. WHILE in Varanasi to file his nomination papers for the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi, then the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial nominee, had declared with his characteristic bravado, “I have not come here on my own. I have been invited by mother Ganga.” He said it was his...
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What the NRC reveals about the challenges of being Bengali in Assam -Paramita Ghosh
-Hindustan Times The NRC exercise is about identifying illegal immigrants within Assam. So why are the Bengalis saying they are being targeted? In the subcontinent, people have lugged suitcases. Said goodbye to old neighbours and acquired new ones. They have changed cities, hammered nameplates on different doors, sometimes in one generation or in each of them. Moving in has never meant that you won’t move out. You may even get an answer out...
More »Crunch time for 70 companies as RBI's NPA deadline ends
-The Hindu Business Line After Allahabad HC rebuff, power firms look for govt lifeline Mumbai: About 70 companies with a combined debt of approximately ?3.6-lakh crore face insolvency proceedings, with the deadline imposed by the Reserve Bank of India ending on Monday. These companies did not get any legal relief as the Allahabad High Court declined to stay the RBI’s February circular instructing banks to take all large accounts above ?2,000 crore...
More »Pawan Agarwal, CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), interviewed by Jyoti Shelar (The Hindu)
-The Hindu FSSAI’s The Eat Right Movement seeks to push manufacturers and consumers towards healthier choices The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recently started The Eat Right Movement, a nationwide campaign to improve public health and push the food industry to produce healthier choices. Thirty companies, including 18 packaged food companies, have signed various Associations with the regulator to bring down salt, sugar and trans fat content in their...
More »Only 9% Of Declared Income of India's National Parties Comes From Sources Known To The Public -Aman Kumar
-TheCitizen.in NEW DELHI: The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on August 7 released a report detailing the donations declared by regional political parties to the Election Commission (EC) for the 2016-17 financial year. Of the 48 parties considered in the report, 16 including the People’s Democratic Party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen have yet to submit their declarations to the EC. A further six claim to have received no contributions at...
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