-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Communal violence witnessed a rise in 2015, with 751 incidents recorded across the country as against 644 in 2014. According to data put out by the government in reply to a Lok Sabha question on Wednesday, there was also a rise in casualties resulting from communal unrest last year, with dead and injured up at 97 and 2,264 from 95 and 1,921 respectively in 2014. Incidentally,...
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High-level probe ordered into ‘rapes’ during Jat quota violence -Shiv Sunny
-The Hindu The Punjab and Haryana High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the alleged crime reported by a newspaper; no eyewitness or victims produced yet A high-level probe has been ordered into allegations of at least 10 women being raped by members of a mob in Murthal village in Haryana during the recent quota agitation by the Jat community. Apart from top police officers from the State and members of the...
More »State polls ahead, govt panel to keep eye on key commodities -Dipak Kumar Dash & Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Ahead of state polls in five states, the Modi government has constituted a committee of senior officers drawn from intelligence agencies and state police to keep a close watch on the movement of essential commodities in the domestic and international markets. On Tuesday, Cabinet secretary P K Sinha took a review meeting on prices of such commodities and directed all these agencies to enforce stock limits...
More »The state of social sector spending in 15-16 -Avani Kapur and Vikram Srinivas
-Livemint.com Overall, we find that social sector investments have in fact increased across all states, except Bihar In February 2015, the Government of India accepted the Fourteenth Finance Commission’s (FFC) recommendation to empower states with greater expenditure discretion. The states’ share in Union taxes, therefore, increased from 32% to 42%. While the move holds the promise to reform India’s centralized, one-size-fits-all approach to financing the social sector, the process adopted by...
More »SC bins intelligence audit plea
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today cited a possible dent in national security to dismiss a public interest plea that had sought a directive to ensure that the accounts of the country's premier intelligence agencies were audited to make them accountable to Parliament. "We feel a judicial order to audit the agencies will create a dent in our functioning and security. This would lead to a dangerous situation," a bench headed by...
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