Minimum Wage. Fair Wage. Living Wage "Minimum wage" is different from "fair wage". "Minimum wage" and "Fair wage" are different from "Living ...
07:33 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Varanasi: Varanasi's famous and highly skilled weavers might get the unenviable distinction of chronic hunger and malnourishment, like the Mussahars and Sahariyas. With the handloom industry battling extinction for over a decade now, malnourished children of weavers is the starkest face of this unfolding tragedy. Congress general secretary, Rahul Gandhi is hard selling the UPA's 6,000 crore rupees weaver package in poll bound Uttar Pradesh. In a political rally, Rahul...
06:45 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Rahul Gandhi may be hard selling UPA's weaver package in poll bound UP but will it really make a difference on the ground? ...
01:04 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has exposed an employment guarantee scam in Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi's constituency Rae Bareli where fake job cards are being used to siphon off money. An RTI application has thrown up some uncomfortable facts in this constituency where in the last 2 years, Rs 280 Crores were spent in Rae Bareli's MNREGS projects, but God knows where exactly is the money going! The national rural employment guarantee...
07:46 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi has dismissed the controversy over Anna Hazare's picture with RSS ideologue Nanaji Dehsmukh. "The issue is how we get the right kind of anti-corruption law. This is no more an issue for us. Rest is now all behind. This is their political game. The real issue is not photographs. The real challenge is what will Parliament do on December 27, 28 and 29,"...
11:19 AM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Not just political parties, but Anna Hazare too will hit the campaign trail in all five poll-bound states but not for votes. Team member Arvind Kejriwal said that Anna Hazare will go to the people if Parliament doesn't pass a strong Lokpal Bill. "I hope Parliament will pass a good Lokpal Bill. Let's hope for the best. It should not be passed in its current form," Kejriwal said....
07:45 AM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: The government introduced the Citizens' Charter Bill in Parliament on Tuesday. While the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI) welcomed the Bill, Team Anna immediately rejected it, demanding that it be brought under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill. As it tabled the Citizens' Charter and Grievance Redress Bill, the government may have hoped the step would placate Team Anna and help push the Lokpal Bill...
09:05 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Nikhil Dey, a member of the NCPRI, has welcomed introduction of Citizens' Charter Bill in Parliament. ...
07:14 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Keeping UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's promise, the much anticipated Food Security Bill which is the Congress President's pet project was cleared by the Union Cabinet on Sunday. It seeks to guarantee the right to food to over 60 per cent of India's population. The Bill is likely to be tabled in Parliament this week. It's being billed as the most ambitious program of the UPA after the Employment...
07:56 AM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: As the UPA ministers meet on Sunday to discuss the Lokpal draft, there are several aspects of the legislation that are still being debated by members of the civil society. A senior citizen, Jameela's montly pension of a thousand rupees from the Delhi's social welfare department is her only support but Jameela gets it once in a while with devastating consequences. She has registered her grievance in the...
07:10 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Chennai: At a time when the simmering Mullaperiyar issue refuses to die down, the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's comment has added fuel to the fire. Chidambaram dismissed the safety concerns in Kerala as a mere electoral gimmick in the run-up to the by-polls in Kerala's Piravom district. "Fears about the dam collapse has more to do with the upcoming Assembly bypoll in Kerala," Chidambaram said. He further set political...
07:47 AM, Dec 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Mullaperiyar dam issue seems to have driven a political wedge in the Congress after Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said that the pending Supreme Court decision on the dam will ultimately favour Tamil Nadu. At a time when the simmering Mullaperiyar issue refuses to die down, the union home minister p Chidambaram's comment has added fuel to the fire. Chidambaram dismissed the safety concerns in Kerala...
11:41 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Prashant Bhushan said Opposition parties have opposed both the government's as well as the Standing Committee's version of the Lokpal Bill. ...
06:54 PM, Dec 11, 2011
New Delhi: Criticising Parliamentary Standing Committee report on the Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare, who is back in Delhi to launch the third chapter of his agitation, reiterated his demands of inclusion of lower bureaucracy and merging the CBI with the Lokpal. "If the Government does not do it by December 22, I will launch an agitation in the poll bound states," threatened Hazare. "The Standing Committee has even crippled the...
09:38 PM, Dec 10, 2011
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Union agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar was slapped by Harvinder Singh as he was returning from a public function on the 24th of ...
09:51 PM, Nov 25, 2011
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