-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday refuted allegations levelled by IAS officer AshokKhemka that the beneficiaries of Land deals in Faridabad included his "aunt". Hooda also rejected allegations of irregularities in Land deals levelled by Khemka in his recent communique to the chief secretary. Hooda said while the woman mentioned by Khemka was an inhabitant of his native village Sanghi, she was no relative...

-The Hindu     In June, the CIC ruled that political parties should come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act In a Landmark judgment, in June this year, the Central Information Commission (CIC) ruled that political parties should come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. The CIC order noted: "We have no hesitation in concluding that INC/AICC, BJP, CPI(M), CPI, NCP and BSP have been substantially financed by the...

-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)   Please click here to access the press release of the press briefing that was held at Indian Women's Press Club, Windsor Place, New Delhi on 13 August, 2013.     ...

-The Times of India JAIPUR: The past decade of rapid economic growth has brought many benefits to India, but on the flip side the environment has suffered the most, exposing the population to serious air and water pollution. India's remarkable growth record, however, has been clouded by a degrading environment and growing scarcity of natural resources. Mirroring the size and diversity of Indian economy, environmental risks are wide ranging and...

-Frontline A World Bank report on climate change warns that a warmer world will trap millions in poverty. "Much of the advance of European capitalists and other members of the European ruling class was at the cost of the colonised and enslaved peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America," says Amiya Kumar Bagchi in his book "Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital." Capitalist expansion following the Industrial Revolution involved...