-The Hindu It will make land acquisition more difficult for private players The Union government proposes to take yet another shot at the crucial land reforms agenda in a bid to help the rural poor affected by a host of land issues and inflation. Having introduced the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill in Parliament, Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, who also holds the Department of Land Resources, aims to address...
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UID project row: Compromise on the cards today? by Meetu Jain
-CNN-IBN The Cabinet Committee is meeting on Friday to discuss the Unique ID project row. Sources have indicated that a compromise has been reached. Both the Nandan Nilekani-LED Unique ID Authority of India and the Registrar General of India will be carrying out parallel exercises to collect biometric data, they say. While the UIDAI will do it in 13 states, the Registrar General of India will collect data in coastal areas and...
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-The Hindu District in-charge Minister J. Krishna Palemar has claimed that there is nothing provocative in the speech of RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat during Hindu Samajotsava that LED to sporadic violence in Uppinangady on Sunday. “What is provocative in his speech? I have seen the video clippings of the programme. I did not find anything provocative. He has made such speeches earlier too,” Mr. Palemar told presspersons here on Thursday. “He...
More »A war almost won by R Ramachandran
India seems to have arrived at the threshold of polio eradication, but should it lower its guard? ON January 13, India achieved what had only two years ago seemed impossible in the immediate term. The country, which, given the epidemiological data in the new millennium, had come to be regarded by health experts around the world as one that would be the last to achieve freedom from polio (poliomyelitis), recorded no...
More »TMC joins BJP, others to oppose textbook council by Nitin Mahajan
The Trinamul Congress, a key ally of the Congress in the UPA, has joined hands with several state governments headed by the BJP and others to block the human resources development ministry’s proposal to set up a National Textbook Council. Besides the TMC and the BJP, the BSP, JD(U), AIADMK and BJD oppose it. The move aimed to create a body that would monitor the content of school textbooks, including those...
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