For Union minister C P Joshi the failure to handle the UPA goverment's flagship programme of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) resulted in his transition from rural development to surface transport. Joshi had not acted on a letter from Congress president Sonia Gandhi to raise MGNREGA wages and also stood in contempt of an Andhra Pradesh High Court order. Joshi was earlier seen as a trusted man...
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New world order will see farMers and miners in charge by Garry White and Rowena Mason
“All these people who got MBAs made a mistake,” according to Jim Rogers, the commodities investor, at the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit last month. “The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It’s going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farMers and the miners.” With commodities up 42pc since the beginning...
More »The Criminalization of Dissent by Prabhat Patnaik
While there will be general agreement that the judgement in Binayak Sen's case represents a gross miscarriage of justice, most people will attribute it to the overzealousness of a lower judicial functionary, or, at the most, to the prevailing atmosphere in the state of Chhattisgarh. If the trial had been held elsewhere, they would argue, Binayak would not have got the verdict he did. They are probably right, just as...
More »Supreme Court to proceed against Prashant Bhushan in contempt case by J Venkatesan
Bench had sought an apology for his interview alleging corruption in judiciary With advocate Prashant Bhushan — facing contempt of court charges for his interview alleging corruption in judiciary — making it clear that he would not tender an apology, the Supreme Court on Thursday decided to proceed with the case on Merits. On December 7, 2010, a Bench of Justices Altamas Kabir, Cyriac Joseph and H.L. Dattu, hearing a contempt petition...
More »3-yr degree in rural med gets govt go-ahead by Kounteya Sinha
A medical degree in three-and-a-half years could soon become a reality. The Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS), which had earlier faced stiff opposition, finally got the go-ahead on Thursday. The Union health ministry, which convened a meeting of state health ministers in Hyderabad, said "the introduction of BRMS courses was endorsed in the meeting unanimously". This means India's rural areas, which have so far been neglected by doctors,...
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