Citizens for Justice and Peace
1.8L `ghost’ farmers get interest subsidy in MP
20-Oct-2015
Bhopal: Funds From Govt’s 0% Scheme Embezzled At a time when suicides by MP farmers follow ng scanty rain and poor yield have brought back focus on their plight, over 1.77 akh ghost farmers have al egedly benefitted from in erest subsidies on loans. Putting a question mark on the much hyped 0% interest farm…
Current govt shares our views, won’t ban us: Sanatan Sanstha
20-Oct-2015
PUNE: The Devendra Fadnavis government is likely to face major embarrassment with Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abhay Vartak saying on Monday, “Our organisation is not banned because of the current government. But, it would have been banned by the previous Congress-NCP government in the current situation.” Speaking to the media in Sangli, Vartak initially refused to…
UP court orders sedition charges against Jaitley
20-Oct-2015
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 | PNS | Lucknow Taking suo motu cognisance of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s statement criticising the SC decision striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) for appointment of judges, a Mahoba court ordered the registration of a case of sedition against Jaitley. The Union Minister has been asked to…
Modi’s budget cuts hurt India’s fight against malnutrition: Gandhi
20-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI, Oct 19, 2015, (Reuters) – India’s main program to fight child malnutrition has been hit by budget cuts that make it difficult to pay wages of millions of health workers, a cabinet minister said on Monday in a rare public criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies. Modi’s government in February slashed social…
Inquiry ordered into `assault’ by Bandra police
19-Oct-2015
Oct 19 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Mumbai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai police commissioner Ahmad Javed has ordered an inquiry into the allegations that the Bandra cops detained and tortured two youths, asking them to leave India and go to Pakistan. Deputy commissioner of police (zone 9) Satyanarayan Choudhary will probe the incident.…
Malegaon charge sheet in a month
19-Oct-2015
Vijaita Singh NEW DELHI, October 19, 2015 NIA records statements of nine key witnesses in the blast case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has recorded the statements of nine key witnesses in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, in which Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit are the main accused. The agency is…
SC strikes down NJAC, revives collegium system of appointing judges
17-Oct-2015
SC strikes down amendment that sought to clip judiciary’s role in appointments, admits collegium system may need changes Written by Utkarsh Anand New Delhi Updated: Oct 17, 2015, 8:07 All eyes on the Supreme Court on Friday as it struck down a Constitutional amendment for first time in 35 years. (Source: Express photo by Ravi…
Activists to boycott CIC event
16-Oct-2015
Oct 16, 2015 | AGE CORRESPONDENT With agency inputs| New Delhi Several leading RTI activists, including Aruna Roy, will boycott the opening ceremony of the annual Central Information Commission convention which will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 16. The activists — including Lokesh Batra, Venkatesh Nayak, Anjali Bhardwaj and Nikhil Dey,…
If J&K can hold polls, why can’t Gujarat: HC
16-Oct-2015
The State Election Commission (SEC) on Thursday assured Gujarat high court that local body elections will be completed before December 25. The election watchdog was directed to keep an eye only on elections. The division bench criticized EC’s submission that elections were deferred as law and order in Gujarat was not conducive for free and…
HC raps govt. over ban on non-Hindu missionaries
16-Oct-2015
Pavan Dahat RAIPUR, October 16, 2015 The Chhattisgarh High Court has said that the “impugned resolution” (Section 129 (G) of the Chhattisgarh Panchayat Raj Act) banning all non-Hindu religious propaganda, prayers and speeches in over 50 villages of Bastar, shall not come in exercise of the fundamental right to preach and propagate of religion and…