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Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare starts a two-day protest against Land Acquisition ordinance at Jantar Mantar from Monday, on the day the Budget Session of the Parliament begins. Hazare is holding the protest to request the withdrawal of the anti-farmer revisions to the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, which was alteration by BJP Government.  Hazare said the two-day protest will be trailed by a three to four month long "padyatra" across the country to make individuals aware of the "anti-farmer" provisions made by the Center in the ordinance. Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Sunday required the Land Ordinance Bill to be taken back, including that the government ought to rather pay special mind to approaches to enhance the condition of the farmers. While interacting with the mediapersons, he said that the agitation is not against any individual or party however for the profit of farmers. "The BJP tried for an ordinance on land procurement which is not ...

On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Facebook Chief Operating officer Sheryl Sandberg posted pictures of their meeting on their Facebook timelines.  Mr Modi's post had been liked by more than 25,000 people and imparted by more than a 1000 inside a hour. He additionally posted, "Had an extremely productive meeting with Sheryl Sandberg. She brought up that India is an exceptionally vital country for Facebook, considering the high number of active Facebook users in India."  "Being an keen interested user of social media myself, I discussed ways through which a platform, for example, Facebook might be utilized for governance and better interaction between the people and governments. I likewise discussed how Facebook could be accustomed to bring more tourists to India," the Prime Minister said.  Mr Modi said he identifies with Ms Sandberg on how the social networking monster she heads can help his legislature in honoring the year of Mahatma ...

As the continuous Lok Sabha polls achieve the sixth phase, another study has found that the aggregate money used on all elections in last five years has traversed 50% of these trusts have originated from "unaccounted sources".  The study, directed by research organization CMS, takes on during an era when different political parties are blaming one another for utilizing charged black money within the continuous Lok Sabha polls, which started on April 7 and will proceed till May 12.  As such, voting has occurred in 232 Lok Sabha situates over five phases, while a further 311 electorates will go to polls in the remaining four phases.  There have as of recently been numerous situations where the Election Commission has usurped groups of cash and different things the nation over and it is keeping a close tab on any conceivable utilization of unaccounted cash and different motivations to bait voters throughout elections, which have customarily been exceptionally costly...