Month December 2017
By Our Representative Raising a major policy issue, a top advocacy group, Mines, Minerals and People (MM&P) has regretted that the plight of the “mining children” is not the responsibility of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India, which looks… Continue Reading →
AlokKNMishra| (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The east corporation has decided to mark all its employeesabsent and deduct their salaries from January 1 if they do not use the last six digits of their Aadhaar numbers and fingerprints to register their attendance. The civic body has distributed Aadhaar-verified biometric attendance machines among supervisors for recording… Continue Reading →
Radheshyam.Jadhav India discards over a million units of blood collected every year, according to health ministry data. This is despite facing a severe blood shortage as only 9.9 million units are collected against the estimated annual requirement of 10-12 million… Continue Reading →
Mohua.Chatterjee @timesgroup.com New Delhi:The Aadhaar divide between the government and opposition parties showed up at the meeting of the parliamentary standing committee for home affairs on Wednesday, prompting six of its 13 members from the ruling BJP to write to panel… Continue Reading →
Process to withdraw 20,000 cases against politicians, including Yogi Adityanath, takes off in Uttar Pradesh By Namita Bajpai | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (File | PTI) LUCKNOW: In an attempt to try politico-legal cleansing, as they are calling it, Yogi… Continue Reading →
Anantkumar Hegde had said, “Some people say the constitution says secular and you must accept it. We will respect the constitution, but the constitution has changed several times and it will change in the future too. We are here to… Continue Reading →
Deliberate delays by police lead to prolonged prison sentences without conviction. ARUN FERREIRA AND VERNON GONSALVES On September 20, 2009, when Kobad Ghandy was arrested from New Delhi, the Andhra Pradesh Special Intelligence Bureau (APSIB) and Delhi Police Special Branch,… Continue Reading →
Appeal for a wider consultation with women’s groups for gender-just family laws The government has tabled a Bill titled Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage), 2017, on the first day in this winter session of the Parliament. This Bill… Continue Reading →
Jagmeet Singh, 27 December 2017 HIGHLIGHTS Facebook asks users to enter name appears on their Aadhaar card The new testing is limited to small group of users with mobile devices It doesn’t make it mandatory to have an Aadhaar card for… Continue Reading →
A 64-year old widow, Premani Kunwar, died of hunger and exhaustion on 1 December in Danda Block of Garhwa district (Jharkhand). Till September 2017, she received her old age pension in her State Bank of India (SBI) account in Danda branch…. Continue Reading →