Galloping food prices have shattered family budgets across the country, with latest inflation data showing that prices rose at nearly 18% in the week ending February 6. Many essentials of Indian kitchens are almost beyond reach; sugar is up by nearly 60%, pulses by 46% and potatoes by 53% over a year. In a country already suffering from chronic malnutrition and low incomes, this trend is a killer. President Pratibha...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 3125
Plan panel withdraws RTI against Highways Ministry by Dipak Kumar Dash
In an unprecedented move, which could lead to simmering down the tension between the highways ministry and the Planning Commission, the principal adviser (infrastructure) in the planning panel Gajendra Haldea has withdrawn an RTI application seeking status of highway projects approved by Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC). The retired bureaucrat and a member of the PPPAC had filed the application before director (RTI) asking for status of NHAI projects...
More »First Husband blow by Satish Nandgaonkar
A revenue court in Vidarbha has issued orders restoring a disputed piece of land to a poor farmer who alleged that six relatives of President Pratibha Patil, including her husband Devisinh Shekhawat, had tried to illegally Transfer the plot in their names. Ashok Amankar, the sub-divisional officer (SDO) of Daryapur, who has quasi-judicial powers, issued orders stating that the names of Devisinh, his sister-in-law Siddeshwar Lalsinh Shekhawat, her sons Bhanwarsinh, Kishoresinh...
More »President's kin usurped land, says court by Vaibhav Ganjapure & Vaidehi More
A local court in Maharashtra has upheld a farmer's plea that India's first family had fraudulently usurped a little more than one hectare of his farmland. Surprisingly, the order was made last December 7 but never made public since the order wasn't given to either party until Tuesday. In the order, the court of Daryapur subdivisional officer Ashok Amankar directed striking off the names of President Pratibha Patil Shekhawat's family...
More »Rs 1 lakh crore budget funds go unspent each year by Pradeep Thakur
While the government is grappling with a huge fiscal deficit and hence large borrowings to fund key social sector schemes, staggering sums of up to Rs 1 lakh crore in a year out of the money allocated to various ministries remained unspent between 2005-06 and 2007-08. Unspent provisions of Rs 100 crore each or more alone totalled Rs 59,000 crore in these years, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General....
More »
