-The Times of India Fireworks can be expected from a crucial meeting to be held on Wednesday after Arvind Kejriwal-led India Against Corruption (IAC) said that 76% of people surveyed were in favour of the activists forming a political party. This comes even as social crusader Anna Hazare has opposed forming a political party and also distanced himself from IAC. The results were published a day after Hazare, who will be reaching...
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From verdant city to vertical slum-Romi Khosla
-The Hindu The government’s ill-conceived urban development schemes are threatening the fuTure of Delhi The Delhi Urban Arts Commission was constituted by an Act of Parliament in 1972 with the sole intention of acting as a supra urban body to guide the fuTure development of Delhi. After 40 years of its existence, chaired by a galaxy of bureaucrats and, more recently, famous architects, it is still difficult to evaluate whether it has...
More »'Defiant' VS Achuthanandan's 'explosive' Kudankulam n-protest Turns into debacle'
-The Indian Express Ignoring the CPIM's official line, party veteran VS Achuthanandan today set out to Kundankulam to pledge solidarity with anti-nuclear protesters but was stopped by Tamil Nadu Police at the border town of Kaliyikkavila near here. As Achuthanandan's car entered the border town, an officer of Tamil Nadu police stopped the vehicle and requested the 88-year-old leader not to proceed further in view of the security concerns. Complying with the request,...
More »Notifying Farming as an Essential Service: An Authoritarian Manoeuvre-SAHRDC
-Economic and Political Weekly The Government of India is considering a proposal to notify farming as an essential service. This is ostensibly to bring drought relief to farmers suffering from a weak monsoon - a laudable goal indeed. However, if farming is deemed an "essential service", farmers and farm workers could lose many of their political and civic rights because the government can then invoke the Essential Services Maintenance Act to...
More »National IT Policy Aims to Make 1 Per Family e-Literate
-Outlook The government has approved the National Policy on Information Technology, which aims to make at least one individual in every household e-literate among other objectives, DEITy Secretary J Satyanarayana said today. "The IT policy has been cleared by the Government of India recently and the Policy addresses a number of issues regarding the development of the ICT sector and using it for the growth of the country, not only from the...
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