‘Singur law not legislated for public purpose'
<p> </p> <p> <title></title> </p> <p> The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 had not been legislated for a public purpose, but was in the interests of those who supported
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State govt tables Rs 10,879-cr suppl budget in Assembly
With Assembly elections round the corner, the Mayawati Government tabled the supplementary budget of Rs 10,879 crore for the fiscal 2011-12 in the State Assembly on Tuesday earmarking over 26 per cent
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Communist Party of India (Marxist): manifesto for the 16th Lok Sabha Elections, 2014
The Manifesto calls for the strengthening of the CPI(M) and the Left representation in the Lok Sabha as this will be the basis for strengthening the secular-democratic foundations and for a pro-people
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Anti-Kudankulam project villagers to ban poll campaigns
Fishermen from Idinthakarai, which is a 15-20-minute drive from Kudankulam, have been protesting against the plant for the past 960 days Residents of Idinthakarai village in Tamil Nadu, who are opposed to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), have decided not to allow any party to campaign in their village.
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Plea against notifying revised NCR plan
Move violates model code: Environmentalists Several environmentalists, civil society activists and non-government organisation members have requested the Chief Election Commissioner seeking to prevent the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) from notifying the Revised Regional Plan-2021 and approving the Haryana Sub-Regional Plan.
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Maharashtra tables Rs 5,417-cr revenue-deficit Budget
Indicates Rs 184 cr revenue surplus budget, turn defict of Rs 3,017.22 cr for 2013-14 due to subsidy & other expenses The Maharashtra government, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, on Tuesday presented a Rs 5,417 crore revenue-deficit Budget for 2014-15.
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Montek for hiking power tariff from gas-run plants
With Lok Sabha elections barely two months away, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has suggested hiking the overall tariff of gas-based power by 50-85 paise per unit to help production
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No work, no vote
Chhindwada told candidates thirty-odd villages in Madhya Pradesh used the recent assembly elections to press an unusual demand: increase the number of employment days under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (nrega) from 100 to 150. Twenty-eight villages in Saunsar tehsil in Chhindwada district asked the candidates vying for assembly seats to include the demand in
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Seechewal for including environment in manifesto
Water-man Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal and his followers have decided to approach various political parties and motivate them to include environment of Punjab as a part of their election manifesto in the forthcoming Lok Sabha (LS) elections.
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Karantaka budget presents no fresh tax; has sops for farmers, minorities
Revenue surplus is estimated at Rs 281 crore. Fiscal deficit is expected to be Rs 20,041 crore-- 2.92 per cent GSDP Apparently Lok Sabha elections weighing on his mind, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today spared the common man of additional tax burden in budget 2014-15.
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India’s first monorail to run from Sunday
It will ply between central suburb of Wadala and eastern suburb of Chembur Come Sunday and India’s first monorail will be thrown open to the public, eight years after it was first proposed. With the Maharashtra government now keen on unveiling key projects before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the monorail will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday.
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Extension of devolution plan to tribal areas sought
Speakers at a seminar in Peshawar (Pakistan) asked the federal government to extend the devolution plan to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas so that tribesmen could elect their representatives
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Green issues dominate election
As the United States heads for a showdown at the polls, its Canadian neighbour is rushing out its own election
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Supreme Court wants regulator for environmental clearances of projects
In a major blow to the Centre's election year decision to speed up environmental clearance to long pending projects, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to appoint a national regulator which
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Changes needed to the legal framework governing Community Forest Management Agreements
After decades of industrial logging and forest mismanagement, the Liberian government has pledged that it will now only issue forest licenses to the communities who own the forest. This welcome change
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CAG audit of Delhi power firms ordered
Fulfilling yet another election promise, the Aam Aadmi Party government on Wednesday ordered a CAG audit into the finances of all the power companies operating in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
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Quake Kills 13 in Russia's Chechnya Region
An earthquake in the Caucasus mountains killed at least 13 people in Russia's Chechnya on Saturday and left hundreds of locals sheltering in tents the day before regional elections. "We must not forget that we have elections tomorrow," Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov told a briefing. "They must go ahead as a happy event for all residents of Chechnya."
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No land acquisition for pvt units, says Mamata
The Trinamul Congress supremo, Miss Mamata Banerjee, today said that if elected to power in West Bengal, her government would ensure industrialisation in the state but asserted that it would not acquire land for setting up private industries. Breaking her mum on CPI-M's continuous attack on using black money by Trinamul Congress for election campaign, Miss Banerjee said that it is the Left Fron
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Sheila's regular plot for irregular colonies
A month ahead of the November 2008 elections in Delhi, which saw Sheila Dikshit winning a third consecutive term as the chief minister, her government signed away certificates granting "provisionally regularised"
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Tamil Nadu moves Supreme Court over Sethusamudram
With Lok Sabha elections months away, Tamil Nadu's AIADMK government has moved the Supreme Court seeking scrapping of the Rs 25,000 crore Sethusamudram shipping channel project saying it would kill the