Politics
India introduces Central Monitoring System
Source: The Register Phone calls, texts, emails and even social media all now snoopable. Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Indian government began quietly rolling out a Rs.4 billion (£47.8m) Central Monitoring System (CMS) designed to give the authorities sweeping access to citizens’ phone calls and internet comms in the name of national [...]
» read moreMeghalaya government seeks report on Garo Hills rape
Source: Times of India SHILLONG: The state government has sought a detailed report from the West Garo Hills district administration on an incident of rape of a girl by miscreants from neighbouring Assam in Boldamgre village of the Garo Hills. Social welfare minister Deborah C Marak convened a meeting with principal secretary (social welfare) PW [...]
» read moreIndia’s cheap food plans to prove costly for government
Source: Reuters India may soon pass a new law to give millions more people cheap food, fulfilling an election promise of the ruling Congress party that could cost about $23 billion a year and take a third of annual grain production. The National Food Security Bill, which aims to feed 70 percent of the population, [...]
» read moreChina and India withdraw troops from Daulat Beg Oldie, Ladakh, ending standoff
Source: Global Post The withdrawal ended a 20-day standoff after Chinese troops breached the militarized border. Experts say Beijing’s latest probe could embolden New Delhi. NEW DELHI, India — Following a three-week standoff, China and India have withdrawn their respective forces from a disputed area of Daulat Beg Oldie, Ladakh, along their shared border. The [...]
» read moreSupreme Court Rules AICTE’s Role as Only Advisory
Source: Khaitan & Co. In a landmark judgement passed on 25 April 2013, the Supreme Court of India (Supreme Court) has held that vis-à-vis universities, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has only an advisory role and cannot issue any sanctions on universities and colleges affiliated to universities. The Supreme Court in this [...]
» read moreBangladesh toll reaches 377, building owner arrested
Source: Reuters India The owner of a factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing hundreds of garment workers was arrested on Sunday trying to flee to India, as hopes of finding more survivors from the country’s worst industrial accident began to fade. Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested by the elite Rapid Action Battalion in the [...]
» read moreCommonwealth meet in Sri Lanka ‘accommodates evil’, Canada says
Source: Times of India LONDON: Canadian foreign minister John Baird has condemned the decision to allow Sri Lanka to host the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in November as “accommodating evil”. Baird spoke out after his Commonwealth counterparts in London on Friday agreed to press ahead with the meeting despite strong criticism over Colombo’s human [...]
» read more‘Teachers’ training has almost collapsed’
Source: News Track India New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) A shortage of nearly a million teachers is affecting implementation of the Right to Education Act in India. Compounding this is the lack of government-run training institutes which forces aspirants to go to private insitutions, with the result that just a fraction manage to clear the [...]
» read moreLadakh incursion: China expresses readiness to work with India deal with differences
Source: Times of India BEIJING: China on Sunday took note of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remarks over PLA’s incursion into the Depsang Valley and said that it is willing to work with New Delhi to deal with differences while maintaining peace at borders and forging strategic cooperative partnership. “We have noted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s [...]
» read moreKerala, Tamil Nadu agree to share water
Source: Times of India THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Ministerial-level talks between Kerala and Tamil Nadu on sharing water under the Parambikulam-Aliyar river pact ended here on Sunday on a positive note with TN agreeing to release 100 cusecs per day to Kerala. In response to Tamil Nadu’s gesture, Kerala agreed to release 40 cusecs per day to Tamil [...]
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