-The Hindu From illegal detentions to wrong convictions, India’s terror prosecution is in dire need of attitudinal overhaul Only those condemned to await their own deaths will know what it is to be suddenly blessed with the elixir of life. On November 22, two Kashmiri men found themselves lifted out of the darkness of their death row cells into light, life and liberty after the Delhi High Court set aside their convictions...
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Dalit women pledge to snatch their rights from oppressive social structures -Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu Sunita Devi couldn’t take her Class IX final exams because the date clashed with the day of her marriage. Nine years on, she has not completed her degree course, but teaches other Dalit women who couldn’t continue their studies after marriage. The resident of Baghpat in western Uttar pradesh was recounting her story to a large number of Dalit women who gathered here on Tuesday as part of the first...
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-The Economic Times The parliamentary standing committee on food is giving a final shape to the UPA-II government's ambitious Food Security Bill. It is likely to submit its report during this session which is likely to end on December 21. Committee chairman Vilas Muttemwar summoned senior food ministry officials on Monday to study the availability of grains and the ministry's readiness to roll out the project. The government, however, is likely to present...
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-The Indian Express The UPA’s cash transfer scheme — delivering over Rs.3.2 lakh crore in subsidies and welfare programmes to the poor, directly to their bank accounts — has raised fears in many quarters about the capacity of a rickety state apparatus to cope with messy implementation issues. Our collective self-confidence about being able to implement any new policy is so low today, we seem to be paralysed by the mere...
More »Cylinder Blast -Lola Nayar
-Outlook The cap on subsidised LPG has the UPA regime worried Something Cookin’ There’s definitely going to be a relook at the six-subsidised-cylinders cap Fear that LPG could cause a replay of the “onion impact” on 2014 polls Pressure from all parties for increasing number of subsidised cylinders Central government keen that states too share burden of extra cylinders But that could be tricky when discussing Centre-state revenue-sharing Cylinder Pricing Subsidised cylinders...
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