Mukesh Ranjan
Harassment bill may cover domestic helps
The government is likely to decide in favour of including domestic helps under the proposed Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010.
A proposal in this effect by the mi
Harassment bill may cover helps
Soon domestic women helps will also get protection against sexual harassment on the lines of their office-going counterparts, as the government is likely to decide in favour of including them also und
Centre considers Public Land Banks at panchayat level
With land becoming a scarce commodity and also being a key factor in several scams, the Centre is considering setting up 'public land banks' at the panchayat level.
The Land Bank, mooted in the 12th
‘Land banks’ for panchayats soon?
With land becoming a scarce commodity and also being a key factor in several scams, the Centre is considering setting up “public land banks” at the panchayat level.
Nrhm lessons: high-tech fund watch planned
As a preventive measure to avoid the recurrence of an NRHM-type scam, the government has worked out an IT-enabled near real-time monitoring network system to keep an eye not only on the fund flow from
Plan panel faces ‘coal scam’ heat
The Planning Commission may soon feel the heat of the alleged coal block allocation scam, as the parliamentary standing committee on finance has asked the plan body why its role should not be brought
New criteria on poverty, Montek’s figures junked
The Planning Commission seems in the grip of a poverty of ideas on how to determine the number of poor people in India. This left Yojana Bhavan a divided house on Thursday as serious differences emerged between deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and minister of state for planning Ashwani Kumar.
DA, pension hike likely
Lakhs of Central government employees and pensioners are likely to get a hike of seven per cent of their basic emoluments. This proposal is high on the agenda of Thursday’s Union Cabinet meeting.
DA, pension hike likely
Lakhs of Central government employees and pensioners are likely to get a hike of seven per cent of their basic emoluments.
This proposal is high on the agenda of Thursday’s Union Cabinet meeting. Gov
Plan panel: BPL not aam aadmi
For Planning Commission those who live below poverty line (BPL) are not “aam aadmi”. The new definition of “aam aadmi” has come at a time, when the Plan panel is facing flak over latest poverty numbers, which it released on Monday. According to the new numbers on poverty, those who spend `28.65 per capita daily in cities are poor.
