Tata, Reliance Warn Strict Action Against Fake Job Offers

INN News Desk

Two of the country’s biggest business conglomerates — Cyrus Mistry-led Tatas and Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Group — have become the target of fake job syndicates making fraudulent employment offers to gullible jobseekers in lieu of money.

After coming across several instances of such fraudulent job offers being made in their name, both the groups have warned of initiating strict civil and criminal actions against these fraudsters and have also issued separate public notices in this regard.

According to senior executives at some leading human resource consultants, they have been also approached by certain people claiming to be representatives of these groups and had asked them to arrange for potential candidates for numerous vacancies.

Investigation: The Great Indian Crop 'Fertilizer Robbery'

By M H Ahssan & Niloufer Khan

Big business houses are diverting subsidized fertilizers meant for poor farmers. INN exposes a shocking collusion that is costing the country crores of rupees. 

Every year, the government spends anywhere between Rs 70,000-Rs 90,000 crore in subsidies to ensure affordable fertilizers for farmers to enable them to get a good yield. Yet, curiously, food grain production has not seen much increase, while farmers still continue to complain about unaffordable fertilizers.

Kashmir Militancy: Young, Educated, Armed And Dangerous

By Rehmatullah Bisht / Srinagar

As cross-border militancy wanes, youth in the state pick up arms to keep the jihad alive. On 30 May, Muhammad Yusuf Mir was on his way home when his phone started ringing. It was a call from the local police and he was scared to answer it. Mir had already heard about an ongoing encounter between militants and security forces in the area and he feared the worst. He was right.

The officer on line had a grim message to deliver. Security forces were battling two militants 3 km from Mir’s village in the south Kashmir district of Pulwama; one of them was his 25-year-old son Sajad Ahmad.

Utt'khand Tragedy: Why Development Couldn’t Save Live?

By Jay Mazoomdaar (Guest Writer)

Nearly all the visitors who survived the catastrophe in Uttarakhand’s Garhwal region have been rescued. All that is left now is a ravaged valley and its hapless residents who will have to cope with the consequence of this calamity for years to come.

While offering to rebuild Kedarnath and much of Garhwal’s infrastructure that has been washed away, chief minister Vijay Bahuguna flatly refused to acknowledge that the disaster as manmade. Since he is not alone in his obsession for growth and contempt for the environmental bogey, it may be useful to examine a few myths that were reinforced in the past two weeks.

Govt Mulls Orders To Keep Political Parties Out Of EC Ambit

By Arhaan Faraaz / Hyderabad

Worried by an Election Commission ruling that restricts expenditure by a candidate contesting elections to Rs 40 lakhs, the government has reached a consensus with all parties and is drafting an ordinance to keep political parties out of the ambit of Election Commission.

After this new law, the code of conduct for political parties shall be regulated by a new body to be named as All Party National Election Commission (Apna EC). Office bearers of Apna EC shall be picked from various political parties and it will function independent of Election Commission.

Why Need Catastrophe Bonds For Utt'khand Flood Losses?

By S Murlidharan (Guest Writer)

The Americans have a pat solution, bordering on panacea, for almost all problems: insurance.  Obamacare, the universal medical access scheme, is rooted in health insurance for all citizens, with the rich subsidising the poor. There is credit default insurance to guard against the possibility of bond issuers reneging on their promise to pay coupons or redeeming the bonds on maturity.

Insight: Is Sugar The Most Toxic Substance In Our Diet?

By Sarah Williams / New York

Robert Lustig, the physician and YouTube sensation who once wrote that sugar should be regulated like alcohol, is on a new crusade to kill the sweetener. In a packed, standing-room-only discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Lustig called sugar an addictive, toxic substance that has no place in consumers' diets. He also hinted that he's ready to step up his fight to push for legislation to cut sugar consumption. "We have to do something about our diets," he said. "We have to get control."

Movie Review: Ghanchakkar Isn’t Funny, But Worthy Film

By Tayyeb Ali / Mumbai

Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen Vidya Balan all over the place, promoting Rajkumar Gupta’s Ghanchakkar dressed in some spectacularly awful costumes. Polka dotted shirts, print on print, stripe on stripe, floral frill on floral frill, headbands, umbrellas, devil horns, peacock earrings, oversized glasses…just enough ridiculousness to make your eyes bleed. To be reminded that these aren’t fashion faux pas but her ‘in character’ isn’t necessarily a good thing, because this hints at an OTT comedy, one we’re already skeptical of. Then again, Balan has given us some pretty ace performances, and we last saw Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan pair up in The Dirty Picture…couldn’t be that bad, could it?