Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand (WPPIL No. 202 OF 2024 with WPPIL NO.174 OF 2024) in the matter of mining operations in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand. The order was passed by the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court Guhanathan Narendar and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari. In compliance with the …
The Lokayukta Bill passed recently by the Uttarakhand Assembly is closer to Team Anna’s Jan Lokpal version than the one drafted by the UPA. For, it includes all government servants except High Court judges, powers to dismiss corrupt officials and permanent blacklisting of business entities that benefit from corruption. It …
The forest officials of Panna Tiger Reserve worked in close nexus with poachers for over a decade, says an internal report prepared by the Intelligence Cell of the tiger reserve, which had lost all its tigers by 2008.
The Cabinet on Friday accepted the report of a high-level committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary K Jairaj that has recommended disciplinary action against 447 officials including three IAS officers and four from the IFS cadre for allegedly abetting illegal mining in the State. The IAS officers against whom disciplinary …
Rapidly growing megacities in Africa and Asia face the highest risks from rising sea levels, floods and other climate change impacts, says a global survey aimed at guiding city planners and investors. The study by risk analysis and mapping firm Maplecroft, released on Wednesday, comes as the United Nations says …
LUCKNOW: Five days after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi accused Mayawati government in UP of mega-scale corruption in the centrally sponsored schemes, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to UP chief minister Mayawati citing a huge scam in the MNREGA scheme in the state. According …
Accusing the Bahujan Samaj Party government in Uttar Pradesh of engineering a large-scale corruption in the centrally sponsored schemes, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that lion's share of fund under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) or mid-day meal project is siphoned off. He also …
Political parties requested Vedanta Resources-owned mining firm Sesa Goa for donations as part of “common practice”, the multinational group said on Friday as the spectre of the massive illegal mining scandal loomed large in the state. In a newspaper advertisement in local newspapers here, Sesa Goa admitted to political donations …
A Karnataka Cabinet decision to send back the report on illegal mining and seeking a clarification from the Lokayukta submitted by Justice Santosh Hegde, who was then the Lokayukata, seeking clarifications, has raised a fresh political storm. The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda decided to send …
The Karnataka government seems to be preparing the ground to reject the Lokayukta report on illegal mining. It has given a clear indication of this by questioning the authority of the Lokayukta and saying the anticorruption watchdog had not cared for “the principle of natural justice” while preparing the report. …
Asserting that there will be no dilution of the RTI Act, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said Government wishes to make Right to Information an “even more effective instrument” for ensuring transparency but wanted a “critical look” at it to address certain concerns. Dr. Singh said the transparency law …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare that his government is not only committed to an effective Lokpal law but also working on a comprehensive agenda to eradicate corruption and improve governance. Responding to a letter from Mr. Hazare, the Prime Minister said creation of Lokpal was …
PANJIM: After Public Accounts Committee (PAC) fiasco on tabling of report pertaining to illegal mining scam in the state, it’s time for Shah Commission to continue its investigation. A team of Shah Commission comprising member Dr U V Singh will be arriving in Goa next week. Officials said that the …
Both civil society and government have travelled a long way on the Lokpal Bill. The official Bill is a much improved version of earlier efforts. Most of the key elements for a strong and effective law are in place. What remain are differences on whether the Lokpal should cover all …
Seeking to counter the perception of insensitivity, the government and the Planning Commission came together to remove caps on the number of poor an individual state can have and formally de-linked subsidies from the income threshold, but did not agree to change its definition of poverty, at least immediately. The …
The chief ministers of India's mineral-rich states are keenly watching the progress of the new Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Bill that was recently approved by the Union cabinet. While many of them have been dragged into illegal mining controversies, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has welcomed any …
A Bill to establish an independent authority to investigate offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 so as to detect corruption by expeditious investigation and to prosecute offenders and redressal of certain types of public grievances and to provide protection to whistleblowers.
India's poverty line finally makes headlines. Do a rapid archival search of newspapers, at least of the past 20 years, and one finds that the poverty line never made it to the front pages. In post television boom, it never featured on prime time. But the past one week has …
India's poverty level will go up by 3.6 per cent in rural areas and 2.9 per cent in urban areas if people's expenditure on health is factored in while measuring poverty. A study by the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi redrew the poverty estimates of 2007 (the Planning Commission …
Poverty is becoming hereditary in India, at least for a sizeable population. That is the conclusion derived from a three-decade tracking of poor households in rural India. A survey by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), an international association of researchers and academicians, claims that those who are chronically poor …
