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60% urban men aged 20-24 unemployed, 5 lakh lost jobs in Gujarat 2016

Thursday, April 18, 2019 Counterview Desk In a new report, "State of Working India", prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, even as taking strong exception to the Government of India discontinuing employment and unemployment survey, has quoted independent surveys to say that a whopping five million...

Book on seven interconnected “political” murders, includin...

CV News/ Wednesday, April 17, 2019 A controversial new book in Hindi, ‘Satta ki Suli’, with an account on CBI judge BH Loya’s death case, released in Ahmedabad, has sought to cover not only the alleged murder of the judge but also a series of seven other "political murders". The book, authored by Mahendra Mishra, Pradeep Singh and Upendra Chowd...

How Modi’s Margdarshak Mandal became parking place for discarded...

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 By RK Misra* Political epitaphs have a way of returning to reclaim the hand that buried them. If the present prime minister of India spares no effort to berate Jawaharlal Nehru for perceived injustice to his deputy Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, how would Narendra Modi be rated when posterity evaluates him for putting to pa...

Future MPs being told to take a pledge to ensure sufficient budget for...

CV News/ Tuesday, April 16, 2019 As part of the Rape Free India Campaign, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), in alliance with the Shala Mitra Sangh, a civil society group of Gujarat, released a draft pledge for the would-be elected representatives of the Lok Sabha polls, asking them to swear for ushering in a rape-free India. T...

Study documents 34 smart city projects forcibly displacing 17,700 peop...

CV News/ Monday, April 15, 2019 As part of the Rape Free India Campaign, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), in alliance with the Shala Mitra Sangh, a civil society group of Gujarat, released a draft pledge for the would-be elected representatives of the Lok Sabha polls, asking them to swear for ushering in a rape-free India. Th...

Elections 2019: BJP in Gujarat trying hard to respond to Modi ‘withdra...

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 COUNTER VIEW By RK Misra* Gujarat is the home state of two of the most powerful people in India today: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Both were deeply rooted in state politics before graduating to centre-stage. Both leveraged their standing in the state to carve out a national niche for themsel...

Modi model? “Refusal” to build Narmada’s micro canal...

Monday, April 15, 2019 Counterview By Medha Patkar* This is the latest photograph of the Kutch Branch Canal (KBC) of the Sardar Sarovar, as of April 8! What does it show, expose, and what memories do you recall? Is it dry or dead? Is it a canal or a carcass of the same? None has forgotten the fact that the Sardar Sarovar was approved as a dam ...

Investigation shows Narmada downstream “seriously” pollute...

By Rohit Prajapati, Krishnakant, Swati Desai* Our investigation regarding quality of water flowing in the Narmada river downstream of the Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD), dated April 6, 2019, between 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. reiterates, what is commonly known now, that the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is planned without considering its impact on the downs...

43% Congress, 32% BJP Lok Sabha candidates declare criminal cases

CV News/ Saturday, April 13, 2019 The Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) has found that, among the major parties, 16 (31%) out of 51 candidates from BJP, 23 (43%) out of 53 candidates from Congress, 16 (20%) out of 80 candidates from BSP, 3 (14%) out of 22 candidates analysed from AIADMK, and 11 (46%) out of 24 candidates from DMK have decl...

Industry needs to implement Industry 4.0 to be more competitive

FICCI along with Department of Heavy Industry under the Samarth Udyog Initiative organized an awareness workshops on Industry 4.0. with an objective to foster adoption of smart manufacturing. This Awareness workshop on Industry 4.0 – Preparing for Digital Transformation In Indian Manufacturing in Ahmedabad is a joint initiative of Department of Hea...

Why are you silent on discrimination against Dalit jawans? Macwan ques...

Friday, April 12, 2019 Close on the heels of releasing his book in Gujarati, "Bhed Bharat", which lists 319 cases of atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis across the country over the last five years, well-known Gujarat Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan has shot an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him the reasons why he does ...

Gujarat govt performance on development “below average”: A...

Counterview Desk Conducted as part of its all-India survey, the high profile NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has found that, in Gujarat, Better Employment Opportunities (42.68%), Drinking Water (37.12%), and Better Hospitals/Primary Healthcare Centres (30.23%) are the top three voters’ priorities. The survey also found that caste and ...

Abandon coal-based power plants, dams on Narmada river: MP 34 civil so...

Friday, April 12, 2019 Counterview Desk As many as 34 civil society organizations of Madhya Pradesh, forming Jan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti, have, through a statement, put forward a list of demands before candidates fighting the Lok Sabha elections, ranging from abandoning new plans to have coal-based power plants to suspending fresh dams on the...

42% of Gujarat wants better employment opportunities

Focusing on Gujarat, this report provides an analysis of 10 most important governance issues as rated by the voters of Gujarat (out of the 31 listed in the questionnaire). These voters’ priorities are further examined in relation to the performance of the Government on those issues as perceived by the respondents. A three-level scale of GOOD, AVERA...

Jindal Steel & Power – Misleading Indian investors & Bankers...

Naveen Jindal has been using the coffers of JSPL to settle his personal rivalry against the Gujarat NRE group for years now, forgetting that JSPL is a public listed company with a separate legal entity and not a personal cheque book to be used at the promoter’s will, said Arun Kumar Jagatramka. Despite knowing fully well that JSPL is barred unde...