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New Delhi: Gearing up for a fresh confrontation with the government on August 16, Team Anna rejected the Lokpal bill approved by the Cabinet calling it a cruel joke.

The union cabinet Thursday approved the draft of the anti-corruption Lokpal bill, to be presented in the monsoon session of parliament beginning Aug 1, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika

Kohima: The Memorandum of Agreement for establishing the Regional Centre for Urban and Environment Studies (RCUES) for North East Region was signed between the Nagaland Government and the All India

Civil society group demands that its version be also taken to Cabinet

 

Anna Hazare’s hunger strike against corruption in April 2011 attracted disparate intellectual strands from within the Indian middle class. These strands brought complementary skills to the table. The neo-Gandhians conferred legitimacy; India Shining provided energy and finances; and Legal Activists helped navigate the legislative path. The movement also attracted the opprobrium of the Independent Left. Understanding these intellectual strands helps explain the Anna Hazare movement. Equally, the movement sheds light on India’s new middle classes and their forms of political engagement.

Khursheed gets Law, Railways for Dinesh Trivedi; Last reshuffle before the polls, says Manmohan

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made two key changes in his Union Council of Ministers on Tuesday: Jairam Ramesh, whose high-profile tenure as Environment and Forests Minister led to the enforcement of long-neglected environmental norms for major industrial projects, was moved to Rural Development, his

Former minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh is being blamed for the slide in India

Comparing the enactment process of Lokpal bill with that of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, social activist Anna Hazare said on Saturday that the pressure from the civic society will ensure that the landmark legislation comes through.

The “civil society” initiative on the Lokpal arrogates to itself the power to decide on the shape of the institution. (Editorial)

A total of 2.42 lakh children in the Capital are out of school, according to a 2009 survey by the Samajik Suvidha Sangam Society, and 71 per cent of Delhi's children go to school against the national figure of 94.5 per cent and 100 per cent for States like Tamil Nadu, according to a fact sheet released at a convention on

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