Act had been criticised for infringing on civil liberties, being arbitrary The Jammu and Kashmir government has approved amendments in the Public Safety Act (PSA), which had come under criticism for being arbitrary and infringing upon the civil liberties of the people. Official sources said that the amendments were approved during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah here on Wednesday. The amendment Bill, sources said, would prevent the slapping...
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Maruti’s Modern Times clash by Sujan Dutta
In the brown smog that covers Manesar this late autumn, large trucks that pack half-a-dozen cars each into their containers queue on the broken highway from Delhi to Jaipur and park any which way they can. Their drivers loll in the teashops and dhabas. Few know when their containers will be loaded with Maruti Suzuki’s deliverables: cars named Swift and Dzire and A-Star and Sx4 that have been booked by tens...
More »Monsoon exits with harvest promise by Pinaki Majumdar
For once, it is a happy farewell to the monsoon. An indulgent rain god, who overstayed for a week to compensate two successive years of drought in Jharkhand, today departed with the golden promise of a bumper winter yield. Weathermen at the Patna Meteorological Office confirmed that the monsoon trough had become weak after October 11, but faded away only today. “The rains have officially withdrawn from Jharkhand. But several parts of...
More »No breakthrough at Maruti after first day of talks between workers, management
-The Hindu Talks brokered by Gurgaon district administration are expected to continue today The first day of talks between the management and striking workers of Maruti Suzuki India Limited's Manesar plant on Monday, brokered by the Gurgaon district administration, did not yield a breakthrough even as the strike entered its 11th day. The talks are expected to continue on Tuesday. Meanwhile, thousands of workers demonstrated outside the Deputy Labour Commissioner's office in Gurgaon...
More »Security forces, Maoists exchange fire in Paschim Medinipur district by Ananya Dutta
Amid a deadline set by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to Maoists to disarm themselves and come for negotiations, there was an exchange of fire on Tuesday between security forces and left wing extremists at a village in the Bankisol-Aluberia area in Paschim Medinipur district. There were reports that Akash, secretary of the State committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), was among those who escaped. “We received a tip-off...
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