-PTI The ongoing strike at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant entered its sixth day today, with no production taking place at the unit, as workers continue to demand that the management take back all suspended and casual employees. The strike by workers at Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd (SPIL) and Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd (SMIPL) in support of their colleagues at Maruti Suzuki India's (MSI) Manesar plant has worsened the situation. "The plant is...
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Telling the wrong story by Dipankar Gupta
Is the Congress afraid of winning in Gujarat? Nothing else explains why it lets Narendra Modi tom-tom development when it should have been the Congress banging the drums. The economic achievements of governments before Modi's read like an award citation, but too much secularism has since led the Congress astray. Instead of showcasing its past performance to regain Gujarat, it is obsessed with nailing Modi as a communalist-in-chief. Naturally, it is...
More »India accounts for 58 per cent of those practicing open defecation globally by K Balchand
India accounts for 58 percent of those who practice open defecation across the globe. In its finding for the year 2008, UNICEF estimated that as many as 63.8 crore people, that is, 54 percent of the country's population, practice open defecation due to inadequate sanitation. On this ignominious list, Indonesia is a distant second with 5.7 crore people lacking toilet facilities, and it accounts for 5 percent of the hapless population which...
More »Victim of police action on Ramdev stir Rajbala dies, yoga guru may attend funeral by Indrani Basu & Bhawna Gandhi
More than 100 days after she had suffered spinal injuries during the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev's protest camp at Ramlila Ground in June this year, a 51-year-old supporter of the yoga guru died in hospital on Monday morning. The victim, Rajbala, had been on ventilator support at the ICU of GB Pant Hospital. "The patient died of cardiac arrest. She had suffered fracture and dislocation of cervical C4 and C5...
More »Rajasthan orders CBI probe into Bharatpur riot by Lokpal Sethi
Succumbing to pressure from leaders of an aggrieved Muslim community, the Rajasthan Government on Saturday decided to hand over investigation of the Gopalgarh firing in Bharatpur to the CBI. At the same time, it also ordered a judicial probe into the incident in which eight persons were killed and 20 injured. The Government also conceded to the demand of removing district collector Krishan Kunal and SP Hinglaz Dan for failing to assess...
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