-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A Central government panel has recommended stringent checks for pesticides in fruits and vegetables, including imported ones. Submitting a report before a bench comprising Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath on Wednesday, the panel - led by a health ministry official - is for intensive monitoring of pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables sold in Delhi. The experts committee, chaired by Sandhya Kulshrestha, was...
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Bhajiya seller's son becomes judge -Himanshu Bhatt
-The Times of India SURAT: For 18 years, he took orders from people for piping hot bhajiyas that his father prepared on a small handcart outside Chikhli bus stop in Navsari. Now, he is all set to deliver orders. Subhash Tripathi is awaiting his appointment as a civil judge. After practicing as a lawyer for five years in Chikhli court, Tripathi cleared the exam for judges recently. The family migrated from Varanasi...
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-The Times of India New Delhi: It's easy to locate Triveni's home in the narrow lanes of the slum colony of Sundar Nagri. "Kaun? Woh RTI-wali ?" says a youngster who offers to lead us through a maze of gullies flanked by open drains till we reach a house that sits cheek-by-jowl with other similar haphazardly built structures. Its occupant, though, is a picture of quiet resilience. In 2002, Triveni became the...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: For a man who prides himself as being the "original reformer", PM Manmohan Singh did not mention the word "reforms" even once in his speech on the ninth anniversary of UPA. And, it was only once that he talked of inflation. It was hardly surprising given that reforms do not seem to be on his radar in view of the tough political environment and inflation is...
More »Prof. Abhijit Sen, member-Planning Commission interviewed by Yogima Seth & Madhvi Sally
-The Economic Times The huge delay in bringing the Food Security Bill to Parliament and the massive opposition to it have seen most states going ahead with key provisions of the proposed Bill, Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen tells ET. Sen has doubts whether the bill would be passed in the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Edited excerpts: * Do you think Food Security Bill would be passed in the Monsoon Session? I am not...
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