-The Hindu The Communist Party of India (Marxist) described death penalty as "inhuman" and said death penalty should be abolished in the country as it is "arbitrarily implemented" and advocated imprisonment till death in rarest of the rare cases. A decision on the party's position was taken at a two-day Central Committee meeting of the CPI(M) that concluded here on Sunday. Talking to Reporters here on Monday, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said...
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Returning money to investors a complex issue: Odisha Police
-PTI Balasore, (Odisha): Though the Crime Branch of Odisha Police have launched state-wide raids on chit fund companies, other non-banking financial institutions and have arrested about 100 people, it was not sure about return of money to investors. "It is a complex issue. No specific commitment can be made on this matter as it involves many legal complications," additional director general of police (Crime Branch), B K Sharma told Reporters here. Mr. Sharma...
More »ICAI plans to audit rural job scheme
-The Hindu Chennai: In a move to usher in more transparency in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will evolve standards to audit the scheme in 2.5 lakh villages, said ICAI president, Subodh Kumar Agarwal on Friday. Briefing Reporters, he said ICAI would evolve a standardised procedure as the auditing of the MGNREGA scheme was unstructured one. He also urged the Centre...
More »Family attempts ‘honour killing’ in Bihar
-The Hindu Patna: In a shocking case of attempted ‘honour killing', a family in Bihar brutally assaulted and tried to kill a 16-year-old girl for her adamant refusal to marry a man they had chosen for her. Sugati Kumari, the victim's family member, tried to strangulate her with a rope. They disfigured her face with a blade, poured acid on her face and left her for dead on a road in Muzaffarpur...
More »Coalgate: SC's caged parrot remark is correct, says CBI chief
-IANS CBI chief Ranjit Sinha Thursday accepted the Supreme Court's observation that the country's premier investigating agency was a "caged parrot" that "speaks in its master's voice". Asked by Reporters about his views on the apex court's caged parrot remark, Sinha said: "Whatever Supreme Court said is correct." However, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said that the court had just made a comment and it was not an order. Moreover, the government had...
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