-The Hindu National Cyber Coordination Centre will give law enforcement agencies access to all Internet accounts Indians using the Internet might be worried over the U.S. spy agencies snooping into their accounts and online data, but the government has set the ball rolling for creating its own multi-agency body - National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) - that would carry out "real-time assessment of cyber security threats" and "generate actionable reports/alerts for proactive...

-The Hindu But it has been offset by substantial increase in urban areas of the district Chennai: The population of the Scheduled Caste (SC) in the rural Kanyakumari district has witnessed a negative growth of 29.3 per cent, but it has been offset by a substantial increase of 35.3 per cent in the urban population. It is the only district in the State that has registered negative growth in rural SC population, as...

-Outlook The LARR bill must plug gaps that allow ingress of misery for the affected The UPA's proposed land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (LARR) bill contains several provisions which seek to improve upon the existing land acquisition law. Anyway, the present law has clearly run its course, with people no longer willing to submit to coercion by the state. The enactment of a new land acquisition law, in order to make...

-PTI Panaji: Insisting that it is not against the Food Security Bill, BJP today said Congress is making "baseless allegation" that the main Opposition party is blocking the proposed law, even as it faulted the draft legislation on a "lot" of provisions. The party contended that it was not responsible for the failure of the Bill being taken up in the last Budget session, but the Congress' "adamant" approach to the opposition's...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The chief ministers of Maoist-hit states have pushed for the second phase of constructing 5,624 km of road stretches in 34 districts falling in Red zones with an investment of Rs 9,400 crore. The government is yet to take a decision on the funding for these. The finance ministry had earlier refused to give this additional amount to the road transport and highways ministry. As per...