A family called off the wedding of their two daughters a day before the marriage was scheduled to be solemnized, after they were pressurized by the panchayat of Jalalpura Kalan village of Jind district to do so. The marriages of the two girls which were set to take place on Thursday were cancelled on Wednesday after members of Bhayan and Jaglan gotras of the panchayat directed them to call off...
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Tribal rights Act tied up in red tape by Liz Mathew
Even legislation championed by Sonia Gandhi can get stuck in bureaucratic limbo—witness the fate of amendments that needed to be made quickly to a law that seeks to safeguard the rights of tribals. The combined backing of the National Advisory Council (NAC), headed by Congress president Gandhi, and the political leadership of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government hasn’t been enough to put in place new guidelines meant to remove the...
More »Kishenji replacement, 4 others held by Shiv Sahay Singh
In what is considered a major success for the police, Sadanala Ramakrishna alias RK, stated to be the head of the central technical committee of the CPI (Maoist), was arrested here on Wednesday. A mechanical engineer from Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, he is believed to have been entrusted with carrying out Maoist activities in West Bengal after the death in November of the outfit's polit bureau member Kishenji. Four other...
More »US doesn't support NGOs to oppose nuclear power projects by Arun Kumar
-IANS The US has said it's strongly supportive of India's investment in civil nuclear power and its support to NGOs goes only for development and for democracy programmes and not for opposing projects like Kudankulam. Asked to comment on a reported remark of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that three US NGOs were funding a movement in Tamil Nadu state to oppose setting up of a nuclear power plant there, State Department spokesperson...
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-Express News Service Within days of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blaming foreign-funded NGOs for instigating anti-nuclear protests in Koodankulam, the government today booked four NGOs for alleged violation of the Foreign Contributions Regulations Act (FCRA) and deported one German national for reportedly helping the protestors. Home Secretary R K Singh told reporters that the bank accounts of the four NGOs were frozen after it was found that they had been diverting money...
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