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BJP wants govt to advance session to pass food bill

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The prospects of food security bill BRIghtened on Monday with BJP saying that it was not opposed to the bill and urged the government to advance the monsoon session of Parliament. Congress continued to show urgency about the food bill with parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath saying that all options were open to promulgate the bill, which will mean an Ordinance route as well as a...

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Press Release: Political Parties brought under RTI Act; Full Bench CIC directs them to provide information under RTI

-Press Release of Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) On 3rd of June 2013, a full bench of Central Information Commission (CIC) comprising of Chief Information Commissioner Shri. Satyananda Mishra and Information Commissioners Shri. M.L. Sharma and Smt. Annapurna Dixit gave a landmark judgment where they ruled in favor of BRInging Political Parties under the ambit of Right to Information Act (RTI). In October 2010, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) filed RTIs...

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UPA feels Red outreach initiatives haven't paid off

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Concern over the anti-Naxal policies not yielding desired results despite massive fund allocations and ambitious development schemes found voice at the meeting of the UPA coordination committee meeting on Monday. The discussion, held in the wake of a massacre of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh on May 25, saw leaders pondering whether the government is getting it right in terms of its policy efforts and needs to...

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A race towards climate catastrophe-Nagraj Adve

-The Hindu     The Earth is now in uncharted territory as atmospheric carbon dioxide has shot past the 400 ppm mark. There is no more room for manoeuvre When BRIan Lara scored a scintillating 400 not out in Antigua in April 2004, it seemed his score would remain unchallenged for the foreseeable future. But we now have another player on the scene who has scored 400, and threatens to go past that number...

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Junk food hurting world economy, UN warns

-AFP ROME: The UN's food agency on Tuesday said obesity and poor nutrition weigh heavily on the global economy and told governments that investing in food health would BRIng big economic as well as social returns. Lost productivity and spiralling health care bills linked to malnutrition "could account for as much as five per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP)," equivalent to $3.5 trillion (2.6 trillion euros) a year, the Food...

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