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Ever Suffering Dalits by Rahul Kumar Balley

No doubt ,India is making progress by leaps and bounds in every sector but the condition of the Dalits in India is deteriorating day by day in the society .Development of any nation has no meaning when a particular section of the society such as the downtrodden are socially & economically segregated from the mainstream . The situation is critical when we measure the overall development of the country in...

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4% of govt purchases will have to be from dalit, tribal-run firms by Subodh Ghildiyal

Ahead of its battle with dalit czarina Mayawati, the Congress-led Centre has made it mandatory for all central bodies to make at least 4% of their annual purchases from small scale industries owned by dalits and tribals. The decision, a leg up for developing entrepreneurship among SCs/STs, came as part of the new public procurement policy cleared by the Union Cabinet on Tuesday which mandates Union ministries/PSUs to make 20% of...

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Reckless activism by AG Noorani

Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai in his address to recruits at the National Police Academy sought to enlist them in his campaign. BAGEHOT'S classic explains why and how a genre of civil servants mushroomed in India latterly as executive power, authority and prestige declined. None of them had earlier revealed a particularly strong spine. T.N. Seshan bared his traits once he was appointed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). Others need not...

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Lokpal Movement: Unanswered Questions by Gautam Navlakha

Why is it that the Anna Hazare-led movement against corruption does not seek to have the Lokpal cover NGOs, corporate houses and the corporate media? Gautam Navlakha (gnavlakha@gmail.com) is a member of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi.   It would be churlish to dismiss “Team Anna’s” mass mobilisation which is an assertion of our collective right to protest. This is especially so in view of the fact that after having waited...

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Help Muslim Malegaon accused get bail, NCM chief urges govt by Pranab Dhal Samanta

Five years after being picked up by police — and almost a year after Swami Aseemanand’s confession — nine Muslim youths accused in the 2006 Malegaon bombings have their best chance of getting bail. The National Commission for Minorities has asked the government to ensure that they are released at the earliest. NCM chairman Wajahat Habibullah recently wrote to the ministries of home and law, asking them to proactively intervene and...

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