-The Hindu The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Monday, deferred till March the hearing on the Mullaperiyar dam issue, saying it will wait till the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee submits its report. The decision was taken at a meeting of the full commission of the NHRC, a senior NHRC official said. “The commission has decided to wait till the empowered committee submits its report on February 29,” the official said. The NHRC had...
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Anand committee to examine experts' reports on dam safety by J Venkatesan
The five-member Empowered Committee, headed by the former Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand, at its meeting here on Monday, will examine the reports it has received from various agencies it constituted to go into the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala. In December last, the committee conducted a spot inspection of the dam. It also heard the views of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the Centre on the issues framed...
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-Live Mint China nearly doubled its rural poverty threshold last week, in a move that will make an estimated 130 million people (or nearly one-tenth of its total population) eligible for various social support schemes funded by the government. China has now tweaked its poverty line for the fourth time in four years. Poverty lines are not set in stone. They have to be regularly changed. This development comes just as the...
More »Bhopal gas tragedy: Won't submit to Supreme Court jurisdiction, says Dow Chemicals by Dhananjay Mahapatra
US-based multinational Dow Chemicals has declined to share its wholly owned subsidiary Union Carbide Corporation's alleged past residuary liability towards compensating 1984 Bhopal tragedy victims and refused to submit to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India, which is dealing with the Union government's plea for an additional Rs 7,844 crore to the gas victims. The UCC also took a stand similar to Dow Chemicals in not submitting to the...
More »All government welfare schemes to undergo Supreme Court’s anti-corruption test by Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Friday ordered an investigation into whether the benefits of government's welfare programmes like NREGA were reaching the intended beneficiaries and to fix accountability for ensuring that they do, in what is going to be a gigantic exercise. A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya appointed senior advocate Indu Malhotra as amicus curiae and asked her to study the details...
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