Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it — Max Frisch, Swiss novelist and playwright Why do MNCs excite extreme emotions in India ? If you take any one of them from banks to pharma and chemicals to defence and aerospace, they are all clubbed together with the “usual suspects” who do more harm than good despite all the good intentions they might have had....
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Govt assures action in CWG 'corruption'
Hit by allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games, the government today promised to take action against those found guilty even as another venue was inaugurated with a leaking roof. Union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy was in damage-control mode over the Central Vigilance Commission's report on widescale corruption in Games' construction projects. "CVC has come out with preliminary remarks on the alleged irregularities in the construction of Commonwealth...
More »'Include dyslexia as a disability while amending RTE Act' by Aarti Dhar
Modifications recommended in definition of ‘child with disability\\\' Taking forward the agenda set by actor Aamir Khan in the Bollywood Film Taare Zameen Par, a Parliamentary Committee has suggested that dyslexia and any other type of disability, if existing, need to be included in the definition of “child with disability” while amending the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill 2010. Dyslexia does not find mention in...
More »‘We are not begging, we are demanding our rights'
10-member delegation meets Pratibha to garner support for Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha Passing of the Bill will be a “historic step” ‘Women should get 50 per cent reservation' Demanding passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha, a large number of women from across the country took out a rally at Jantar Mantar here on Thursday to demand their “right”. While the rally gathered support for the Bill, a...
More »Campaign against caste census denounced
Janhit Abhiyan, an umbrella group of professors, writers, Filmmakers, journalists and social justice proponents, has, in a statement, denounced the campaign against caste-based census by “a section of intellectuals and media,” and said this amounted to undermining the consensus arrived at in Parliament. The statement was signed among others by Prof. Tulsiram and Prof. Chamanlal of the Jawaharlal Nehru University; writers Surendra Mohan, Sheeba Aslam Fahmi , Umrao Singh Jatav and...
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