-PTI New Delhi: NGOs whose licences were suspended for non-compliance of government rules have been given a final deadline of 14 June to file their returns for the last five years. They would have to upload their annual returns for the financial years 2010-11 to 2014-15 along with a renewal application under the mandatory Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, a home ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. The government is estimated to have cancelled the...
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India Exclusion Report 2016 paints a bleak picture of jobs, equality, agriculture
-MoneyControl.com Even as the Indian economy grew, the inequality between the rich and the poor too has widened with drastic fall in jobs and increase in number of landless farmers, the India Exclusion Report 2016 says. Even as the Indian economy grew, the inequality between the rich and the poor, too, has widened with a drastic fall in jobs and increase in number of landless farmers, says the India Exclusion Report...
More »GM Mustard could open door for 100-odd crops in pipeline -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Activists, others question yield and bio-safety data; GM mustard can improve yields by 25-30% After many ifs and buts, the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) mustard seems to have reached a decisive phase after the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) recommended on Thursday that it be allowed. The ministry of environment and forests will now decide on whether this herbicide-tolerant variety can become the first GM food crop to be...
More »Mustard set to be India's first GM food, gets regulator nod -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India's central biotech regulator, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), on Thursday cleared the genetically modified (GM) Mustard for commercial cultivation and recommended its approval to the environment ministry. The fate of this transgenic variety of oil-seed will now be in the hands of the MoS environment Anil Madhav Dave who may either accept it, reject it or sit over the file till the Supreme Court takes...
More »How Dalit lands were stolen -Ilangovan Rajasekaran
-Frontline.in The British government, on the basis of an 1891 report on the subhuman living conditions of “Pariahs” by James H.A. Tremenheere, Acting Collector of Chengleput, assigned 12 lakh acres of land for distribution to the “depressed classes” of the Madras Presidency to empower them socially and economically. But more than 100 years later, much of this land is in the possession of non-Dalits, and the struggle to reclaim them has...
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