-The Indian Express Maharashtra govt rolls out new plan for slum-free Mumbai Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Thursday rolled out a new plan to take Mumbai towards a slum-free status. Under this plan, over 18 lakh slum dwellers residing in slum tenements, that came up between 2000 and 2011, have now been guaranteed a replacement house. However, it will not be for free. All these residents would need to pay for the...
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Karnataka: 'Preposterous' says SC to AG's claim on anti-defection law
-National Herald While hearing Congress, JD(S) petitions against decision to invite BJP to form Karnataka govt, SC said it’s preposterous to argue that MLAs before taking oath were not amenable to anti-defection law Early on Thursday, the Supreme Court heard a Congress and Janata Dal (SECular) joint petition asking that the swearing-in of BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa as Karnataka's new Chief Minister be postponed, among other prayers. The joint petition challenged Karnataka...
More »By 2035, Delhi will be almost Mumbai + Kolkata
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi will overtake Tokyo as the world’s largest urban agglomeration by 2030 and have a population of 43.3 million by 2035, according to a UN report. The same report also predicts that over half of India’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. In 2015, the Delhi urban agglomeration — which includes the capital and its contiguous satellite towns — had an estimated population...
More »New labour policy to make Kerala employee-friendly
-PTI Thiruvananthapuram: The CPI(M)-led LDF government in Kerala is all set to implement its new labour policy with the state cabinet according sanction for it today. A cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, gave the nod to the Kerala State Labour Policy, which envisages making the state more employee-friendly and ensuring social SECurity and decent wages to all workers. According to an official release, the new policy advocates stringent action against...
More »Dear opinion pollsters: In Karnataka, there was an utter disregard for basic standards -Rahul Verma
-ThePrint.in Political science departments can contribute a lot by introducing graduate level courses on research methods. This will help understand the findings of a poll. Dear Friends (if I may call you so), I am one of you. I share your nervousness about forecasting an election, almost go sleepless the night before the counting day, and jump in joy when we manage to correctly predict an election outcome, and through a heartbreak when...
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