-PTI Madhya Pradesh Government today extended the tenure of the Union Carbide Toxic Gas Leak Probe Commission by an year, sources said. The term of the committee, headed by Justice S L Kocchar, was to expire on February 25, they said. The decision in this regard was taken by the state Cabinet at its meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The Commission was constituted after a lot of hue and cry was...
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Mamata Banerjee raps cops for cracking rape case
-The Times of India Two senior police officers have been made to pay the price for solving a rape case that CM Mamata Banerjee had said was a "fabricated story". Detective chief Damayanti Sen and joint commissioner, HQ, Javed Shamim stood at the Writers' Buildings rostrum on Monday and issued a clarification that no one had asked for. A section of officers feels Sen and Shamim were pulled up by Mamata for...
More »Officials lure tribals into sterilization to meet target by Suchandana Gupta
After Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan declared 2012 as the year of family planning, some district collectors seem to have tossed the rule book to the winds to meet their targets. Such has been the zeal among the officials to bring more and more people under the scalpel that they are luring and misguiding protected tribals with dwindling population into sterilization. From aanganwadi workers to tehsildars and village 'patwaris',...
More »West Bengal being blind to farmer suicides: Karat by Shiv Sahay Singh
Farmers unable to bear the costs of agricultural inputs: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Charging the Trinamool Congress-led government with failing to admit the prevalence of farmers' suicides in the State, Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said here on Sunday that such suicides were “not seen or heard of” when the Left Front was in power for 34 years. “The government is not ready to accept that the farmers...
More »Karnataka CM Sadananda Gowda's 287 aides cost exchequer Rs 70L every month by ND Shiva Kumar
Karnataka Chief Minister has 287 people, including principal secretary, advisors and dalayats (who do menial jobs), to assist him and together they take home Rs 70 lakh as salary every month. This excludes security personnel who guard Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda round the clock. An RTI query revealed there are 237 personnel for the CM at Vidhana Soudha, 21 people assist him at his home office 'Krishna' and 29...
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