While hearing a bunch of petitions challenging transfers of the Panchayati Raj Department, Rajasthan High Court ruled that the requirement of taking consent from the Panchayati Raj Department for such transfers as envisaged under the Rule 8 of the Rajasthan Panchayati Raj Rules, 2011 was not necessarily pre-facto and was fulfilled even if the consent was taken post-facto. “No doubt, …
I T has all the trappings of a propaganda war. For example, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar criticised the opposition for distributing freebies that made people “lazy” and declared that in principle the BJP was against such a “sit down policy”. ‘Sri Lanka–type economic crisis’ The freebies attack has also come from ostensibly independent, but government-linked, “expert” sources. Not …
Berlin to begin returning newly arrived asylum seekers to Greece after five-year suspension of such transfers. Germany has decided to start returning newly arrived asylum seekers to Greece starting in mid-March, according to an interior ministry spokesperson, effectively reversing a five-year suspension of such transfers owing to the poor conditions there. A German interior ministry spokesman told AFP news agency …
A U.S. State Department communication meant for Congress gives the lie to the Indian governments claims about the 123 Agreement. The letter sent on January 16 to the Chairman of the U.S. House Committee for Foreign Affairs, Tom Lantos, concerning congressional review of the India-U.S. civil nuclear cooperation agreement, became public on September 2, two days before the crucial second …