-Express News Service Lucknow: A complaint has been lodged against BSP MLC Arvind Kumar Tripathi alias Guddu Tripathi at Hussainganj police station on Saturday evening for allegedly issuing threats to RTI activist Shamim Ahmed. Police said Ahmed has alleged that he had collected the documents pertaining to the site map of Tripathi’s hotel in Hussainganj area through RTI Act. He alleged that the hotel was not built as per the map and...
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12th Five Year Plan Focuses on Inclusive Growth: Montek
-Outlook Lucknow: Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said the 12th Five Year Plan lays emphasis not merely on economic development but on inclusive growth to bring more poor and marginal people under its ambit. "The one point that I find reading the newspapers talking about the economic development is that there is a tendency to think that economic growth is a very narrow objective," Ahluwalia said while addressing the...
More »Flash flood hits Jim Corbett park, tourists evacuated -Neha Shukla
-The Times of India Lucknow: The incessant rains in the past two days and the ensuing flash flood forced the Corbett National Park evacuate tourists on Saturday and close down the park for 24 hours. The park was reopened on Sunday afternoon. The park authorities said that the streams that ran down the park's length and breadth were so strong that even the tourist vehicles would have flown away. "That's why we...
More »The Doctor Only Knows Economics-Lola Nayar and Amba Batra Bakshi
-Outlook This could be the UPA’s worst cut to its beloved aam admi. Healthcare has virtually been handed over to privateers. Not For Those Who Need It Most Govt seems to have abandoned healthcare to the private sector Diagnosing An Ailing Republic 70 per cent of India still lives in the villages, where only two per cent of qualified allopathic doctors are available Due to lack of access to medical care, rural India...
More »Welcome to closet illiberalism-Vidya Subrahmaniam
-The Hindu Caste might be cast in stone judging from the way the dominant discourse gets conducted in India “Caste is the most overwhelming factor in Indian life. Those who deny it in principle also accept it in practice. Life moves within the frontiers of caste and cultured men speak in soft tones against the system of caste, while its rejection in action just does not occur to them...” Socialist thinker Ram...
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