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Indiaspend.com, November 4, 2014
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was enacted in September 2005. It promises up to 100 days of employment per rural household to all adults at the minimum wage. Any adult residing in rural areas could demand work and was entitled to get it within 15 days of asking. If the government failed to provide employment, such adults were entitled to an unemployment allowance
While the demand-driven aspect and the unemployment allowance aspect (…)

Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi is a “national hero” who “fought for independence from the British” and whose reputation has been tarnished by previous governments and who should figure prominently among the new list of national heroes to be taught in all government schools.
So urges a controversial letter dated November 15, 2014 addressed to Smruti Irani, cabinet minister for Human Resources Development, and posted on the home page of savetemples.org, the website of the “Mission to Save Hinduism and Hindu Temples”. Touted as a ‘Project of Global Hindu Heritage Foundation, (GHHF) USA’, the mission operates out of the ‘Save Temple Office’ opened in Hyderabad city in June 2012.

Too afraid of the law to kill someone ? If you’re in Pakistan, law should not be a problem. We have a special recipe of getting away with murder, lynching, arson and loot. Trust me you can do all of this with impunity and turn it into an ‘honorable act’. Let me tell you how. Just invest in a cleric, lure an Imam Masjid into giving an emotional khutba (religious sermon), accuse the person-in-question of blasphemy and you are sorted. Within hours a mob will gather and assist you doing the job with full protection from the law.

Today i.e.. November 13 2014 the Supreme Court of India Ordered Day to Day Hearing of the Gulberg Trial and completion of the Trial within 3 months. It did not Its Vacate Stay on the Trial Court Judgement (operative since May 2010) (as requested by SIT). The state of Gujarat tried to confuse the issue but fortunately our team, Ms Aparna Bhat had a detailed status report prepared by us which was read out to the Hon’ble Court.

The masses with memories of Jamaat-assisted butchery watched incredulously as Ghulam Azam was rebranded into a wise old Islamic scholar