-JantaKaReporter.com Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has often been dubbed by his criticis as a Twitter minister because of his prolific use of the microblogging site to resolve minor inconveniences of passengers. However, on major fronts, his department has made no progress at all. In some cases, the performance of Indian trains have alarmingly worsened under Suresh Prabhu as the minister. The number of accidents has risen with total losses of lives also...
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10 Years Of Damage, 42 Crores: Alleged Cost Of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art Of Living Yamuna Event -Harish UPAdhya & Raija Susan Panicker
-NDTV New Delhi: It will take 10 years to reverse the damage done to the banks of the River Yamuna by a huge cultural festival organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the country's top environmental court was told today. A team of experts who have visited the area where the three-day event was held last year have said restoring the flood plain will also cost about 42 crores and take extensive...
More »The politics and economics of farm loan waivers -R Sukumar
-Livemint.com Farm loan waivers are a bad idea. They were a bad idea in 2008 when the UPA was in power, and continue to be so in 2017 with the NDA in power Several parts of India are in the grip of an agrarian crisis. In part, this is because of the cumulative effect of bad monsoons. Farmers in many parts of India are still dependent on the annual rains which were deficient...
More »...and one Aadhaar to rule them all -Nikhil Dey
-Deccan Herald The last fig leaf of ‘voluntariness’ in Aadhaar dropped when the Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2017 on March 22. The Finance Bill should never have been able to change Aadhaar, but we must remember that it was the same “money bill route” that gave birth to the Aadhaar Act a year ago. Classifying Aadhaar as a money bill was a brazen, unconstitutional and undemocratic strategy used to take...
More »Fact Check: Do the new draft RTI rules differ from the existing Rules of 2012? -Shyamlal Yadav
-The Indian Express Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has rejected the Congress allegations, saying the proposed Rules regarding the word limit and application fees remain the same as they were under the UPA government. On March 31, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the nodal department for the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI), put on its web site a circular titled “Framing RTI Rules, 2017 in supersession of...
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