- 95.6% Villages Electrified By the Congress, BJP Electrified Only 4% But Boasts About 100% Electrification
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claimed that the NDA government had achieved 100 per cent electrification of villages in India. That might be true, but what the PM conveniently skipped to mention, is that 95.6 per cent of villages had been electrified before May 2014, under the UPA regime. Read more.
- BJP Says No Separate Law Needed To Prevent Mob Lynchings Despite SC’s Suggestion
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is not interested in bringing a separate law to prevent lynchings in the country even after the Supreme Court urged that the parliament bring in a separate law. Read more.
- Uttar Pradesh: Police Officers Make Fun Of Me, Ignore My Requests, Says Dalit BJP MLA
The condition of Dalits and minorities has deteriorated under Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. A Dalit MLA belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has alleged that police officers in his constituency make fun of him and deliberately ignore his requests, causing major embarrassment to the state government. Read more
- Ravi Shankar Prasad Used A Lie To Raise Doubts On Our Credibility: Ex-IAS, IPS, IFS Officers Write To BBC
A group of former civil servants have claimed that Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has lied to raise doubts on their credibility in Stephen Sackur’s BBC show Hard Talk. They have written a letter to Sackur underlining that Prasad dismissed their open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by falsely asserting that “ninety per cent of the members of this group were those who made a public appeal to vote against Shri Narendra Modi”. Read more
- Changes Will Make RTI Act Useless: Rahul Gandhi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi today attacked the BJP government over proposed changes to the Right to Information Act, saying they will render the law useless. The proposed amendments, circulated among Members of Parliament, seek to do away with the parity given to information commissions with the Election Commission in terms of salary, allowances and conditions of service, RTI activists have said. Read more
- Stop Garlanding Convicts: Opposition Members Raise Slogan Against Jayant Sinha
Opposition members in the Lok Sabha today raised slogans against Civil Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha for garlanding men convicted of lynching a meat trader in Jharkhand. As soon as the minister rose to respond to a question on upgradation of airports during the Question Hour, opposition members started raising slogans. Read more
- Manipur University Row: Students Allege VC Illegally Donated Rs 2 Lakh From University’s Fund To ABVP, Submit Memorandum To HRD Ministry
The members of a northeast students’ body today submitted a memorandum to the HRD Ministry, seeking removal of Manipur University’s Vice-Chancellor Aditya Prasad Pandey over allegations of financial irregularities and administrative negligence. The members of the North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) today staged a protest outside the ministry, while a couple of its other members submitted a memorandum to the ministry. Read more
- How GST Is Killing The Bicycle Industry In Punjab While Officials Remain Clueless
According to a report by Asia Times, as the goods and services tax (GST) was rolled out in July last year, production in a vast number of companies has been significantly low due to delay in tax refunds. The story of the bicycle industries located around Ludhiana in Punjab is not any different. Gurmeet Singh Kular, managing director of Darshan Kular Cycle Industries, Punjab said that he is awaiting a tax refund of $300,000. Read more