-The Hindu Court shocked by rule allowing civil society groups to stop vehicles, seize animals New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Rajasthan government to come clean about its investigation into the July 20 Alwar lynching case in which the victim, Rakbar Khan, died of injuries while police officers allegedly took time off to herd his cows to a gaushala before taking him to hospital. The incident took place just days...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 11496
Maneka Gandhi bypassed; nutrition norms cleared -Jagriti Chandra
-The Hindu After PMO intervention, NITI Aayog approves guidelines New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has approved the supplementary nutrition guidelines, prepared by the Ministry for Women and Child Development, bypassing Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi following intervention by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), according to a person familiar with the development. The PMO had stepped in to end a more than yearlong stand-off between Ms. Gandhi and the Ministry’s officials...
More »For 8 days IAS officer toiled at Kerala relief camp without revealing who he was -Ramesh Babu
-Hindustan Times Kannan Gopinathan, a 2012 batch IAS officer serving as district collector in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, had arrived in Kerala on August 26 as the state battled devastation from deadly floods. Thiruvananthapuram: For eight days, Kannan Gopinathan worked at relief camps in flood-ravaged Kerala, spending two of those carrying large packages on his head while offloading relief material from trucks in the port city of Kochi....
More »Scheduled Castes among worst sufferers of India's job problem -Sukhdeo Thorat
-Hindustan Times Social discrimination and socioeconomic realities add to disadvantages faced by Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the labour market. Although we do not have employment trends from National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) after 2011-12, anecdotal evidence suggests that India’s job challenge might have worsened in this period. The slow pace of job creation inflicts greater suffering on the workforce in an economy. This suffering however is not the same for all...
More »Did the Indian economy create nearly 13 million jobs in 2017? -Amit Basole and Anand Shrivastava
-Hindustan Times While a final conclusion on employment growth should wait for 2017-18 NSSO data, rosy estimates based on selective assumptions do not inspire much confidence . New Delhi: In a study prepared as a background report for the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, economists Surjit Bhalla and Tirthatanmoy Das have claimed that the Indian economy created around 12.8 million jobs (by principal status) in 2017. The authors also claim that net...
More »
