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December 8, 2016
Court tells state to declare itself insolvent if it can't bear the Rs 8,000 crore cost to regularise employees earning fixed payscales
Strong remarks were passed by the Supreme Court against the Gujarat government for not paying fixed pay employees under the pay scale designated for regular employees. “Declare yourself insolvent if you cannot pay,“ the court told the...
December 8, 2016
The first rationalist to be killed, allegedly and in all likelihood by the Sanathan Sanstha was Narayan Dabholkar, while on a morning walk in Pune, near the Omkreshwar temple, shot dead at point blank range.
Dr Hamid Dabholkar, son of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, psychiatrist and state secretary of Maharashtra Andhashradha Nirmulan Samiti (ANIS), today, spoke once again to Mumbai...
December 8, 2016
Alka Dhupkar and Divyesh Singh, journalists with the Mumbai mirror have today reported the CBI’s ‘lie’ in misinforming the Court that it is actually awaiting Scotland Yard Reports. The agency investigating the murders of the rationalists has been maintaining that it is awaiting reports from UK when it emerges that they are awaiting permission to send it in the first place...
December 8, 2016
Around 08.30 every morning, hundreds of workers arrive at the main bus depot in Noida Phase II, about 30 km from New Delhi. They fan out into the lanes of the neighbouring Hosiery Complex. With nothing more than a tiffin box in their hands, they begin their daily job hunt.
Casual workers, mostly tailors, arrive at the Noida Phase II bus stand as they begin their daily job hunt. About 80% of...
December 7, 2016
द इकोनॉमिस्ट के पत्रकार स्टेनली पिगनल की ओर से नोटबंदी की आलोचना करने से आरबीआई तिलमिला गया है लिहाजा आरबीआई ने अपनी दैनिक ब्रीफिंग्स से उन्हें बाहर रखा
मोदी सरकार के नोटबंदी के फैसले पर ब्रिटेन से प्रकाशित मशहूर पत्रिका इकोनॉमिस्ट के तीखे लेख पर आरबीआई तिलमिला गया है। पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी के खास माने जाने वाले आरबीआई गवर्नर उर्जित पटेल इस रिपोर्ट से खासे खफा हैं और उन्होंने इसकी प्रतिक्रिया में...
December 7, 2016
Each one of us can take meaningful action to end the scourge of gender-based violence
All men should stand up to violence against women /BIGSTOCK
To all fathers, sons, and husbands:
Every daughter has a father; every son has a mother; every husband, a wife. As daughters, mothers, and wives, we call upon the men of Bangladesh to stand with the girls and women they...
December 7, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of Dalits gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday to pay their respects to the scholar-reformer.
Image credit: Punit Paranjpe/ AFP
The last time Lalitabai Kamble travelled to Mumbai, it was 1972 and she was a young teenager. Of all the sites she visited in the city, BR Ambedkar’s memorial in Dadar was not one of them.
“Back then, my family had no...
December 7, 2016
John Kerry offered yet another tough-love talk to Israel at the pro-Israel Saban Forum yesterday. The United States gives Israel more than half of the aid that we give “to the entire world,” and Israel simply ignores us when we warn it about new settlements.
Kerry: Every president, Republican and Democrat, has been opposed to settlements – we issue a warning...
December 7, 2016
अहमदाबाद। नोटबंदी के बाद बैंकों और एटीएम से नोटों की निकासी के लिए सीमा तय किए जाने पर गुजरात हाई कोर्ट ने रिजर्व बैंक से पूछा है कि आखिर किस अधिकार के तहत उसने यह रोक लगाई है। चीफ जस्टिस आर.एस रेड्डी और जस्टिस वीएम पंचोली ने रिजर्व बैंक से यह भी पूछा कि आखिर कैसे डिस्ट्रिक्ट सेंट्रल को-ऑपरेटिव बैंक्स पर पाबंदियां लगा दीं।
अदालत ने कहा कि अथॉरिटीज के पास नोटों को बैन किए जाने की ताकत...
December 7, 2016
There was a 24% rise in rural women accessing public healthcare between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report by Brookings India, a think tank, significant in a country where half the rural population uses private healthcare, which is four times costlier.
Overall, there was a 6% rise in dependence on public healthcare for out-patients and 7% for in-patients over the decade ending...