-PTI Lashing at UPA government for coming out with "lopsided" food security bill, CPI today said the policy of Above Poverty Line (APL) and Below Poverty Line (BPL) should be done away with and every citizens should be given equal priced foodgrains. "We are protesting against the central government for coming up with a lopsided food security bill. CPI opposes such a bill," CPI Secretary, Jammu Regional Council, Dr G S Charak...
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Mischief potential of social media in full play-Sudipto Mondal
-The Hindu The combined power of the mobile phone, the Internet and the social media was on display in the crisis that LED to thousands of people from the northeast fleeing Bangalore. What became clear was that rumour-mongers did not belong exclusively to either the northeast or the Muslim community. There were also other groups who may have helped fan the panic. In mid-July this year, a Pakistani news portal, columnpk.com, carried...
More »Reliance Power Got Undue Benefit of Rs 29,033 Cr: CAG
-PTI Flaying post-bid concessions to Reliance Power, the CAG today said the Anil Ambani-LED firm got undue benefit of Rs 29,033 crore when the government allowed use of surplus coal from blocks allotted to Sasan power plant for its other projects. CAG in its report tabLED in Parliament said subsequent to award of the 4,000 MW Sasan ultra mega power project to RPL, the government granted permission to the company to utilise...
More »Sonia-LED panel calls for revamp of 'rigid' RTE Act-Ritika Chopra
-Mail Online India Concerned over the rigidity of some provisions of the Right to Education Act, members of the National Advisory Council (NAC) are working on a report recommending review of the norms and standards laid down for schools under the legislation. The NAC, LED by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, has been advising the central government on the effective implementation of the provisions of the RTE Act. Calling the Act as excessively 'input-driven',...
More »Indian men can be raped, not sexually harassed-Manoj Mitta
-The Times of India When it first circulated a draft Bill in 2010 to amend the rape law, the home ministry stuck to the traditional notion that men alone could commit sexual assault. But when the Cabinet cleared the Bill last month for introduction in Parliament, the offence turned "gender neutral", as reveaLED by a government press release. Welcome to the brave new world of gender neutrality, in which laws increasingly no...
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