-The Hindu From 896 females per 1,000 males a year ago, the ratio is now 898 females per 1,000 males New Delhi: The sex ratio in the Capital has improved in the past one year. From 896 females per 1,000 males a year ago, the ratio now stands at 898 females per 1,000 males — and it is best among the Muslims. On Wednesday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia released Delhi government’s data on...
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Do you want judiciary to come to a grinding halt, SC asks Centre -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu We would be "forced" to judicially intervene, warns the apex court. New Delhi: In what may be the sharpest warning to the NDA government, the Supreme Court on Friday asked whether the Narendra Modi government is trying to bring the entire judicial institution to a "grinding halt" by sitting on recommendations of the Collegium for appointment and transfer of judges to High Courts across the country. Chief Justice of India T.S.Thakur...
More »India’s forests valued at Rs 115 trillion, but tribals unlikely to get a share -Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: India’s forests are worth as much as the combined market value of BSE-listed companies with a notional value of Rs 115 trillion but the money collected from diverting parts of this land for industries won’t go to communities that live in and are dependent on the jungles. The Union environment ministry accepted most recommendations of a 2013 expert panel that hiked the rates at which industrialists pay for...
More »Parties, CIC tug it out over RTI ambit -B Muralidhar Reddy
-The Hindu In a landmark judgment in 2013, the Central Information Commission had ruled that political parties come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. The tug of war between the six national political parties and the Central Information Commission (CIC) continues as they continue to defy its orders three years after it had declared them as “public authorities” under the Right to Information Act, 2005 making it mandatory for...
More »Dumbing down a pliable workforce -Rohit Dhankar
-The Hindu Democracies are not sustained by obedient productive units in so-called knowledge-based economies. But that is precisely what the new National Education Policy envisages “Public policy,” according to Douglas Gomery, “is the making of governmental rules and regulations to benefit not one individual but society as a whole. It asks, what is the best way to conceive and evaluate policies aimed at the public as a whole and its various subgroups?”...
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