-The Times of India A spate of violent strikes in Kashmir indicates the Valley's tenuous security situation. Targeting security personnel and ordinary civilians, the attacks in Srinagar and Bijbehara seemed designed to send out the message that militancy is alive and kicking. Their timing is as significant. They come on the heels of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's push to have the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) revoked from certain districts....
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Rise in India's crime graph by five per cent in 2010
-The Hindu Cases of crime under various categories in the country increased by about 5 per cent last year as compared to 2009, according to a publication of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Besides, road accidents alone claimed 1.33 lakh lives last year, an increase of 5.5 per cent over 2009 that saw 1.26 lakh deaths. According to “Crime in India 2010,” a total of 22,24,831 crimes were reported under the...
More »Sonia’s scheme monitors off to uneasy start by Sanjay K Jha
Sonia Gandhi’s ambitious plan to institutionalise political monitoring of the government’s flagship programmes in states has taken off in a tentative and haphazard manner. Although she has appointed a separate Congress general secretary, Vilas Muttemwar, to oversee the monitoring system and asked all state party units to set up committees to study the implementation of the schemes, little has been achieved in the past 10 months. Many state units are yet...
More »India Calcutta hospital is accused over infant deaths
-BBC Some of the parents of 12 children who died over the last two days in a hospital in the Indian city of Calcutta have accused it of negligence. The deaths of the children follows 25 similar "crib deaths" in June. Staff at the BC Roy hospital have strongly denied the negligence allegations. They say that the infants were admitted in a critical condition. But correspondents say that the hospital is overcrowded, with many...
More »Order CBI probe into NREGA fund loot, Jairam Ramesh tells Mayawati
-The Economic Times Congress sharpened its attack against BSP, with Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh accusing the Mayawati government of embezzlingMGNREGA funds. In a letter to the Chief Minister, Ramesh asked the state government to seek a CBI probe into "violations and cases of deliberate embezzlement of funds" in the implementation of the Centre's flagship programme. Ramesh pointed to alleged siphoning of funds earmarked for the rural employment guarantee scheme in seven...
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