Bengaluru, July 7 (IANS) About 250 unemployed youth who sought jobs at Karnataka Chief Minister's public interface (Janata Darshan) have got job offers, said an official statement from Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy's office on Saturday.
"A special team formed at the Chief Minister's home office has made pact with various companies to provide employment opportunities to these 250 applicants," the statement said.
The Chief Minister also directed the Deputy Commissioners of the state's 30 districts to hear public grievances and resolve the problems of disabled, poor and the unemployed on the spot.
"The issues which cannot be resolved at their level can be referred to the CMO, which I will review twice a month," the statement quoted Kumaraswamy as saying.
District-in-charge secretaries will also be directed to bring issues from across the state to the Chief Minister's notice, Kumaraswamy said, adding that changes will be made in the administration so as to benefit the common man.
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Chandigarh, July 7 (IANS) Embarrassed by criticism over appointment of a controversial police officer to replace the controversial district police chief of Moga, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday ordered the removal of the recently-appointed SSP Kamaljit Singh Dhillon.Dhillon's removal came "after receiving the report he (Amarinder Singh) had sought earlier this week into some pending inquiries against him", a state government spokesman said here on Saturday.
Dhillon, who was appointed as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Moga on Monday, has been shifted as Assistant Inspector General of Police, Crime. Posted in Moga only for five days, he was appointed in place of earlier Moga SSP Raj Jit Singh who was removed after the Amarinder government came under pressure from various quarters over his links to the drugs racket and other controversies of disproportionate assets.
"The Chief Minister has taken the decision on his removal as inquiries, warranting disciplinary action against him, had been found to be pending. The Chief Minister has asked DGP Suresh Arora and the Home Department to immediately take action on the said inquiries," the spokesman said.
The Punjab government has now posted G.S. Toor as the new Moga SSP. An IPS officer of the 2004 batch, he is currently AIG Counter Intelligence, Ludhiana.
The Amarinder government is being criticized by the opposition for not fulfilling its promise to eradicate drugs from the state.
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Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) Union Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu on Saturday said the focus of the new industrial policy would be on modernising existing businesses and developing new industries.He said objective of the new industrial policy would be to align with the future trends of global industry.
"We want to ensure 20 per cent of the $5 trillion GDP size (expected by 2025) to come from manufacturing. But to reach there, we are working on few strategies," he said.
"The focus would be on developing new industries and it does not mean that we will ignore old industry. We will look to modernise existing businesses," he said.
The government has appointed a parallel committee to review all regulations, he said at an event organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce.
"Idea is to review all regulatory policy; we are removing undue regulations in a big way," Prabhu said.
According to him, the focus should be on both macro and micro development in order to increase the country's GDP.
With this in mind, the government has undertaken a pilot in six districts across five states to push development.
"We want to see how we can increase the GDP of these districts by 3 percent and we have taken the state governments on board. While ease of doing business is being improved nationally unless we do it at the district level, it will not serve the purpose," he added.
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Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) AUnion Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu on Saturday said there is misconception that India is providing subsidies to its exporters, noting what the government gives is to minimise the adversities they suffer in entering the global markets."This is a misconception that we subsidise our exports... actually we don't subsidise the exports. What we give to the exporters in India is not any subsidy or incentive to promote exports but in a way, (to) partially offset the inadequate infrastructure support that they have... the high interest cost in the system," he said.
"We are trying to minimise the adversities they suffer from. This is not actually exports subsidy but in a way it is actually reducing the burden which they suffer to enter the global markets," he said at SHEFEXIL (Shellac and Forest Products Export Promotion Council) Awards for Export Excellence in association with The Economic Times.
Rich countries are providing more subsidies to their farmers that India is giving, he said.
"We are actually in a way not at all violating or not even trying to infringe any of the global trading system," he said, adding that the country is "fully WTO compatible".
Prabhu also said that in a bid to promote exports and overall industries growth, the centre is preparing a logistic plan.
"We are working on the logistic plan in two phases. The first is how to optimise the present logistic infrastructure and integrate it. The second is to create logistic hubs so that products get launched globally to use these hubs."
He also pointed out the possibility of creating basis for logistics in critical areas overseas and citing an example of central American country like Panana which connects both north and south America, Prabhu said logistic base in such country can help India's exporters.
He said India is preparing a matrix of products and countries that can be exported. "We are actually identifying 12 champion sectors," he added.
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New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Hitting out at the BJP and the Modi government, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said their politics of "hatred and communal polarisation" as seen in brutal lynchings across the country have "sickened our nation."The politics of hatred and communal polarisation is irreparably damaging our social fabric," said Gandhi on Twitter.
"The brutal lynchings across India that have sickened our nation, are the direct consequence of that kind of politics," he added.
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London, July 7 (IANS) India's Divij Sharan and his New Zealand partner Artem Sitak survived a tough five-set battle to enter the third round of the men's doubles category at the Wimbledon tennis tournament here on Saturday.The unseeded Indo-Kiwi combination had started poorly as they lost the first couple of sets to Julio Peralta of Chile and Argentina's Horacio Zeballos.
But Sharan and Sitak made a superb comeback, winning the next three sets to carve out a 6-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-4 victory in a gruelling contest which lasted for three hours and 22 minutes.
They will face Jonathan Erlich of Israel and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in the next round.
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Will probe BJP CMs after coming to power, says Congress
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting the "corrupt" BJP leaders including Chief Ministers of various BJP-ruled states, Congress on Saturday said when it comes to power, there will be thorough investigation on the cases against them and they will be in "jail" and not out on "bail".
Responding to Modi, who on Saturday said people are calling Congress "Bail gadi" because many of its senior leaders are out on bail in various cases, the party said that the Prime Minister, "who talks about bail gadi (bullock cart)", has taken the farmers to its era in the age of tractors.
"PM talks about corruption, but there are so many corruption cases aginst the Chief Minister of Rajasthan (Vasundhara Raje). There are also cases aganst other BJP chief ministers," said Congress spokesperson R.P.N Singh.
Attacking Modi for hielding corrupt BJP leaders, he said that the Prime Minister always maintained silence on the matter and never ordered a probe against BJP leaders allegedly involved in corruption.
"There will be investigation on the crores of money which have been siphoned off. We have raised various cases of corruption against BJP ministers and even the son of BJP president (Amit Shah) but no reports, no CBI inquiry, not even an income tax investigation has been initiated," Singh said.
"When PM was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, the GSPC scandal of Rs 20 lakh crore took place. The day our government comes to power, we will investigate all these matters. And all these people will not get bail and will be in jail. When they are in power they do not investigate such matters," he added.
Slamming Modi, who addressed a rally in Rajasthan on Saturday, Singh accused the state government of not allowing farmers to attend the rally.
He also alleged that private players had been forced by the Rajasthan government to bring people to the rally.
He also termed the government's announcement on doubling the income of farmers and raising the MSP of farm produce another 'jumla'. "This is the first government which has put farm products under GST. The PM of the country always speaks half-truth. This was no where close to the Swaminathan report," he said.
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