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Mr. Justice Balakrishnan favoured setting up of gram Nyayalayas. “If about 4,000 Gram Nyayalayas are set up in the country, they can be helpful in settling minor offences or disputes of rural people,” he said.
Allowing futures trading in commodities will not fuel inflation, government’s chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu said on Friday. “The reason why I am personally in favour of allowing futures trade in commodities is because it is not going to make inflation worse,” Basu said at a FICCI seminar on de-risking the futures trading in commodities held in New Delhi.
The Reserve Bank said high inflation, primarily driven by food prices, has started spreading to the broader economy now but it is likely to ease in the coming months on the back of an expected moderation in food prices with the arrival of fresh crops. “Inflation is now broad-based and spreading to areas other than food, especially manufacturing, and is [...]
India has emerged as the second fastest growing investor in the United Statesafter the UAE between 2004 and 2008, a top Obama Administration official has said. The recent years have seen the drift toward a newer group of investors from countries such as the UAE, India, Spain andChile, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Robert D Hormats said in his address [...]
Comptroller and Auditor General of India has made initiatives for participation of large number of stakeholders before undertaking audits in topics impacting common man. It issued advertisements in newspapers across the country inviting comments from the public regarding water pollution issues. These inputs are to be used while planning the Performance Audit on “Pollution of Rivers, Lakes and Groundwater in India” being conducted by [...]
The Indian subcontinent has a history of devastating earthquakes. The major reason for the high frequency and intensity of earthquakes is that India is driving into Asia at a rate of approximately 47 mm/year. Almost 54% of the land is vulnerable to earthquakes. The latest version of seismic zoning map of India assigns four levels of seismicity in terms of [...]
Majority of middle class parents desist from sending their children of age group exceeding 17-18 to established coaching institutions for making careers in IITs, medical, management institutions including for Law courses for want of resources as these make a hole in their pockets by Rs. 3 Lakh per annum even if their children have been rated above average by their [...]
The study undertaken by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has projected 87.37 million new jobs by 2015 with a very significant share of 32 percent by the manufacturing sector followed by the trade and construction. The chamber study on “Emerging Future jobs”, has revealed that the next most important source of new employment is expected [...]
The Manmohan Singh Government is introducing a Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill in the Lok Sabha. This is a harmful piece of legislation meant to serve the interests of the United States and its nuclear industry. This is also an outcome of the Indo-US nuclear deal. The Government is seeking to fulfill a hidden commitment to deliver a legislation [...]
Professor Madabhushi Sridhar, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, 2010 as approved by Rajya Sabha recently, seeks to reserve as nearly as possible one third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, and the state legislative assemblies including Delhi. Rajya Sabha and Legislative councils in States are excluded from [...]
The UPA Government has placed the Nuclear Liability Bill as one of 36 legislations it wants the Parliament to pass this session. This is one more chapter in the sorry saga of the India US Nuclear Deal. The key part of the the proposed Bill is to absolve all US equipment suppliers of any liability. Without this, the US equipment [...]
Seismologists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre have found that the earthquake counts go up steadily as the moon comes closer to the Earth (perigee) and also when it is Full Moon. The scientists have also found that major earthquakes occur more in numbers when perigee coincides with Full Moon and New Moon than at apogee (position of moon farthest [...]
The Technology development and Transfer issue is under active discussion at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The discussions include a Technology Mechanism to accelerate the technology development and transfer in support of adaptation and mitigation activities. In the negotiations, India along with other developing countries have insisted that Annex-I Parties should commit between 0.5 to 1.0 [...]
The Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs Shri V. Narayanasamy has said that four sites from India figure in the list of endangered heritage sites compiled by World Monument Fund in 2010. These are:
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