News Source: Telegraph India
| about 1 month ago
If Manmohan Singh heaved a sigh of relief this morning, professors whose frontbenchers bunk class would have sympathised with him. Barring Patnaik, no chief minister from the states expected to counter Maoists through tribal welfare turned up for a...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
The conference is on the implementation of Forest Rights Act 2006, and to promote tribal development and welfare programmes. The government believes harassment of innocent tribals and their arrests under Forest Rights Act fanned Maoist violence.
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
The Chaturvedi committee was constituted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in August this year to recommend ways to fast-track road development. Planning Commission member B K Chaturvedi heads the committee. December last year. "Several other...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
There has been a delay because we wanted to iron out the tendering process," said Nath...Nath said the threshold limit of shareholding under the conflict of interest clause has been raised from 5% to 25% with immediate effect. The clause had created...
News Source: BBC South Asia
| about 1 month ago
Speaking at a conference in Delhi, Mr Singh said there had been a "systematic failure" to give tribal people a stake in India's modern economy. He said this was fomenting discontent, making them vulnerable to Maoists. The fight with Maoist rebels,...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
As per the clause, if the traffic exceeded a certain limit for three consecutive years, the developer had to undertake upgradation work on that stretch. The clause, however, barred the company from operating and collecting toll from the project if it...