-Scroll.in Dealers claimed that government-run oil firms are threatening to block supplies if the information is not provided. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has asked 10 lakh employees at petrol pumps across the country for personal details like their caste, religion and which constituency they are from, NDTV reported on Tuesday. The information is ostensibly meant for a skill development programme, but dealers have threatened legal action, claiming that...
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Uttarakhand HC slams tribunal chairman for strange order; imposes cost on central govt
-PTI The Central Administrative Tribunal’s Nainital bench had been hearing the case filed by Sanjiv Chaturvedi in the matter pertaining to adverse entries made into his appraisal report of 2015-16 by AIIMS, New Delhi, where he was working as Chief Vigilance Officer from 2012 to 2016. Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court has slammed the chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for passing a “strange order” on a plea made by the central...
More »HC flays police for not providing details of missing children
-The Hindu Takes suo motu cognisance of article in The Hindu, makes it part of case records Chennai (Tamil Nadu): The Madras High Court on Friday took suo motu cognisance of a news article titled ‘India’s Missing Children’ that appeared in the Sunday Magazine section of The Hindu on August 12 and made it a part of the official records of a batch of cases being heard by the court in connection...
More »India's missing children: The story WhatsApp forwards don't tell you -Divya Gandhi & Julie Merin Varughese
-The Hindu Some 174 children go missing every day. Only about 50% of them are ever found again. But the story behind these statistics is complex Shehzadi Malik has watched the seven-minute video clip on her phone a few hundred times these past three months. Sometimes she is looking for clues. Sometimes she is just watching it, empty of hope. Sometimes she is simply looking at her nine-year-old boy, Kabir. This CCTV...
More »Monthly income per farm household grew between NSSO & NABARD surveys, but so has the level of outstanding loans
A recent report by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) enlightens one about the state of farmers' income and indebtedness in 2015-16. Entitled NABARD All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17 – in short NAFIS 2016-17 – the report says that between 2012-13 and 2015-16 the average monthly income for agricultural households grew by around 39 percent. One may recall that the Key Indicators of Situation Assessment Survey...
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