-NDTV Thiruvananthapuram: For the first time, a drought has been declared in every single one of Kerala's 14 districts. The worst-hit areas are in districts of central Kerala, bordering Tamil Nadu. A weak monsoon dealt the first blow. Then, the main source of water in this region - the Aliyar dam - is running low. Tamil Nadu says severe drought in its own districts is the reason behind the release of less...
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Reliance Industries unit fined Rs. 11 crore for insider trading
-Reuters Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has fined a unit of energy conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd Rs. 11 crore over a 2007 insider trading case. The company, Reliance Petroinvestments Ltd, has 45 days to pay the fine, the Sebi said in its ruling published late on Thursday. The regulator said Reliance Petroinvestments made a profit of Rs. 3.83 crore through several trades between February and March 2007 that were...
More »Panchayats take first steps towards digital empowerment- Anuja
-Live Mint Even as India struggles in efforts to usher in transparency, some panchayats are offering a refreshing contrast Chandana/Jind: Sometime last year, Surendra Singh got a call from a military outpost in Srinagar. The soldier had an urgent inquiry for the 31-year-old sarpanch of Chandana, a village in Haryana's Kaithal district. The man, who hailed from the village, had lost his voter ID card and needed a letter from the...
More »EC disqualifies 2,045 candidates for not submitting poll expenditure-J Balaji
-The Hindu The Election Commission has disqualified 2,045 candidates who contested by-elections/general elections to the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies of various States and Union Territories for failing to submit their poll expenditure accounts within the stipulated 30 days from the date of announcement of results. These persons, most of them non-serious contestants, will be barred from standing in any election conducted by the EC for three years from the date...
More »Building euphoria-Himanshu Upadhyaya
-Frontline But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...
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