-The Times of India NEW delhi: The Supreme Court has made it very risky for any organisation to publish a survey on alleged corruption in lower judiciary. The court said on Tuesday that the law permitted one or many trial courts to make a reference to a high court to launch contempt proceedings against those responsible for the embarrassing findings. This ruling came in an 11-year-old case filed by Transparency International India...
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Whistleblower says not protected: delhi HC seeks Centre's reply
-PTI The court issued notice to the Ministry of Labour and the Chief Labour Commissioner and sought their reply by May 9. New delhi: The delhi High Court on Friday sought the response of the Centre and the Chief Labour Commissioner on a plea by a labour enforcement officer claiming he was not protected despite being a whistleblower. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva asked the government to place on record whether it carried out...
More »Not sure about data in foreign reports on air pollution deaths: Environment Minister -Amitabh Sinha
-The Indian Express Government policies could not be framed solely on the findings of international reports, he maintained. EVEN AS he acknowledged that the health impacts of air pollution were “real” and “dangerous”, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave on Friday contested some of the numbers presented in a new global report, which has identified India as the worst affected country and attributed more than a million deaths in the country in...
More »MSPs should have an expiry date, but job is tough: Arvind Subramanian
-PTI New delhi: Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian today took the line that the minimum support price on foodgrains for farmers should not continue forever and there should be an "expiry date". "Minimum support price (MSP) originally came into being because we had a big problem of lack of self-sufficiency in foodgrain production. It (MSP) was used as means of providing incentives to farmers. It has been successful. We no longer...
More »Homes not for landless -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New delhi: A revamped central housing scheme promising shelter for all rural families by 2022 has no room for the landless. Dalits, Adivasis and nomadic tribes who have no land will be forced live without dignity as the Centre has discontinued assistance to landless people for purchasing land under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), activists say. It has also dropped plans for a law to give plots to the...
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