Clean chit to scribe for his salt-roti midday meal video

The Uttar Pradesh police has given a clean chit to a journalist who was booked for allegedly maligning the image of the tate government after he shot a video showing just salt and rotis being......

Journalist booked for video of salt-roti midday meal

A case has been registered against a journalist, village-head representative and others for allegedly doing "despicable work" of maligning the image of the Uttar Pradesh government by recording a......

NHRC issues notice to Bihar govt over midday meal poisoning

National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to Bihar government over reports that at least 72 children fell ill after having their midday meal in two government schools in the state. In a......

Chargesheet filed in Bihar midday-meal tragedy case

Three months after 23 children died after eating contaminated meals, a chargesheet has been filed against the suspended principal and her husband in the midday meal tragedy in a primary school at......

And who will account for the 2% tax

Few right-thinking taxpayers can suffer pangs about the 2 per cent across-the-board cess imposed by the finance minister to ensure primary education and midday meal schemes among the poor, ill-fed,......

Can Left's mindset be changed?

Singapore's former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, on his recent visit to India, gave West Bengal's Leftists a piece of friendly advice: change your mindset. To this, the state's Chief Minister,......

How to utilise the education cess

The 2 per cent education cess imposed in the Budget for 2004-05 is estimated to yield a revenue of Rs 4,000-5,000 crore (Rs 40-50 billion) per annum, which will be earmarked for education,......

Chidambaram announces his 4th Budget

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday announced in the Budget for 2005-06 that the Planning Commission has drawn up Tsunami relief programme costing Rs 10,260 crore (Rs 102.6 billion).So far, Rs......