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With a view to providing social security to unorganised workers, including landless agricultural labourers, the Government has enacted the Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008. The Act provides for constitution of National Social Security Board to recommend social security schemes viz. life and disability cover, health maternity benefits, old age protection and any other benefit as may be determined by [...]
‘Apart from female foeticide, malnutrition is a major cause’ Raising concerns over declining sex ratio in the country, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath called for more steps to prevent the issues related with girl child and women. The government needs to work on better policies in collaboration with other public and private institutions, Tirath said [...]
There has been a slow but a steady migration from Kerala, and remittances from migrants form more than 60 per cent of the state’s revenue, reveals a study. Done at the Centre for Development Studies here, this is fifth in the series of comprehensive studies on international and internal migration from Kerala since 1998. According to the study, the number [...]
Introduction At the time of presentation of the budget for the year 2010-11, the Government had announced its decision to introduce a special scheme to address the development of 33 Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected districts. It was inter-alia, stated that the Planning Commission would prepare an Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for the affected areas and that adequate funds would be [...]
Releasing the Hungama survey that measured the nutrition status of more than one lakh children and 74,000 mothers, Singh said, “What concerns me and what must concern all enlightened citizens is that 42% of our children are still underweight. This is an unacceptably high occurrence.” There are nearly 16 crore children in India below the age of six years. According to Singh, [...]
The police escort was in the line of a verbal firing. I was at Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad, in the RMO’s room, where a convict brought in from Chanchalguda central prison for a medical check-up was bewildered, looking on in total confusion over what the fuss was all about. “Isko to ECG ke liye yahan bhijaye hai. Tum isko ultrasound [...]
THE Food Security Bill 2011, introduced in parliament and sent for the consideration of the standing committee, will provide legal sanction to the very policies which have led to the present situation of widespread hunger and malnutrition. Some of the issues in the bill are (1) Narrow targeting, categorisation and definitions (2) Conditional entitlements (3) Extreme centralisation and violation of [...]
The Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010, introduced in the Parliament has been referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development. Sexual Harassment at the workplace is a violation of women’s right to equality, life and liberty. It vitiates the work environment and serves to discourage women from participating in work, gravely affecting women’s [...]
The Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill 2011 is almost the same version of the bill introduced in parliament in 2005 with minor changes. When the 2005 Bill was introduced, there was opposition from the government employees as it had direct bearing on the pension prospect of the central government employees who joined service on or after 1-1-2004 [...]
(IANS) The US department of homeland security reportedly makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles in a bid to track down people who use “sensitive” words. If anyone uses a word or phrase from the department’s list, American spies might read the posts, investigate the online account and even attempt to identify the person from it, the Daily Mail reported. Some words [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) A court in Siberia Wednesday rejected the state prosecutor’s plea for banning the Hindu holy text Bhagavad Gita in Russia, according to information received here.
Chennai, Dec 28 (IANS) The general mood of India Against Corruption (IAC) members here supporting Anna Hazare’s demand for a strong anti-graft law was of disappointment after the Lok Sabha passed the Lokpal Bill Tuesday night but they were determined to take their protest to the next level, said an activist Wednesday. ‘We didn’t get what we expected. Now we [...]
Judicial milestones of 2011 Jan 21: Life term upheld for Australian Graham Staines’ killers Ravinder Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh and Mahender Hambram in Odisha. March 3: Appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner P.J. Thomas struck down. March 7: Court rules Aruna Shanbaug to live but permits passive euthanasia (passive mercy killing) under certain circumstances. March 7: Nod for common MBBS [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) It was a year of judicial activism as the Supreme Court was in 2011 called on to adjudicate on a wide swathe of issues ranging from governance, to graft, to police high-handedness. In the process it was as harsh on the corrupt as on holy cows — and even cautioned judges to stay within the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) A court in Russia Wednesday began its final hearing in a state prosecutors’ case seeking a ban on the Bhagavad Gita, one of the holiest Hindu scriptures, and branding it as ‘extremist’ literature. The Siberian court is scheduled to hear the views of the Russian human rights ombudsman on the Bhagavad Gita and upholding the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) A day after getting the Lokpal and whistle-blowers bill passed, the government Wednesday introduced in the Lok Sabha the judicial accountability legislation that seeks to establish a credible mechanism to probe complaints of misbehaviour by judges. It also simultaneously introduced a constitution amendment bill that seeks to amend the procedures for appointment of judges and [...]
Mumbai, Dec 27 (IANS) Anna Hazare’s agitation attracted a modest crowd in Mumbai but Indians in the US and Japan Tuesday lent an international touch to the fight for a strong Lokpal bill. In Tokyo, several Indians and India Against Corruption (IAC) volunteers submitted a memorandum to the Indian ambassador, demanding a strong Lokpal bill, activists informed IANS by email. [...]
Bangalore, Dec 27 (IANS) Scholars at the university set up by IT czar Azim Premji seriously doubt the effectiveness of the all-powerful Lokpal, advocated by Anna Hazare and his team, to fight corruption without legal reforms. ‘Without highly contentious legal reforms, an extremely powerful agency, which the Jan Lokpal Bill (advocated by Hazare and his team) promises to establish, can [...]
Aligarh, Dec 26 (IANS) Development should depend on resources, capacities and needs of the local population rather than dictated by forces of globalisation, social activist Medha Patkar said Monday. Delivering the second K.P. Singh Memorial Lecture on ‘People, Development and Globalisation’ at the Aligarh Muslim University, she said topics like Sensex and GDP had overshadowed the more important issue of [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 26 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh High Court Monday set aside the order of a special CBI court granting bail to former bureaucrat V.D. Rajagopal in the illegal mining case involving the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy. The high court, which had stayed the order of the lower court Dec 16, cancelled the [...]
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