-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The villages of Dongriya Kondh tribals around Odisha's Niyamgiri hills are likely to simmer again as the Centre and the state government along with civil society groups are planning to converge on the site for the proposed Vedanta bauxite mine. The Supreme Court order has left it to the villagers to decide the fate of the Vedanta project, and the call revolves on whether the venture...
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Banks suppressing alerts on suspect dealings: RBI probe-Josy Joseph
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: An investigation by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) into allegations of money laundering by private banks has found large-scale violations ranging from huge cash deposits without PAN to dummy numbers. The probe report, a copy of which is available with TOI, shows that three private players - HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank - had also hugely suppressed alerts generated by their system on...
More »Why Orissa mining may not go the Goa way -Meera Mohanty
-The Economic Times Three weeks ago, when the Supreme Court reopened the iron-ore mining door some more in Karnataka, miners in Orissa breathed a Rs 50,000 crore sigh of relief. Also in the dock for some offences of a similar nature, Orissa's iron-ore miners, who produce a third of this mineral that is critical to steel, had been dreading their fate, which lay in the hands of a Central government panel. The...
More »CPM rolls up the rope-JP Yadav
-The Telegraph Meet the Merciful Marxists, never mind the Bolsheviks preferred a bullet to the head and Meera Bhattacharjee graced a public platform in Calcutta to seek the death penalty. Prakash Karat today said the CPM had decided to advocate without exception the abolition of death penalty, almost a decade after its Bengal unit led a vociferous campaign to hang teen rapist and killer Dhananjoy Chatterjee. "The central committee has decided that...
More »CAG report shows why food security will be a disaster-Vivek Kaul
-Firstpost.com On 7 May, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India presented to Parliament a Performance Audit of Storage Management and Movement of Foodgrains in Food Corporation of India. This report has gone largely unreported in the media, given that it does not contain any big number running into lakhs of crores like previous reports of the CAG did. But it clearly explains why the government of India is in no...
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