-The Indian Express The report recommended specific provisions in the ministry’s version of the transgender Bill, to safeguard their rights, protect them against discrimination, and provide quotas in government colleges and jobs. The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to junk the recommendations of a parliamentary committee report which was the first ever government document to recognise the rights of transgender persons to partnerships and marriage, so that they...
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In western UP, no trucker brave enough to take dying cow to vet -Sandeep Rai
-The Times of India MEERUT: Jyoti Singh, 24, who left a cushy corporate job in Gurgaon to do organic farming in her Bulandshahr village, hasn't been able to find a single transporter for more than three weeks now to take her dying cow Moni to a vet. The cow, injured in a leg, needs to go to a hospital in Bareilly for expert treatment, but such is the fear of rampaging gau...
More »Paddy plea at PM door -Subhashish Mohanty
-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: An Assembly committee will seek a fresh appointment with PRIme Minister Narendra Modi to consider Odisha's demand to increase the minimum support PRIce for paddy. The decision to meet Modi was taken on Friday at a House committee meeting presided over by Speaker Pradeep Amat. The committee had approached the PRIme Minister's Office twice this year, but without any success. Leader of the Opposition Narasingh Mishra said: "The Speaker will write...
More »Closely monitor rural roads, PM tells officials in review meeting
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: PRIme Minister Narendra Modi has directed officials to ensure efficient and stringent monitoring of construction of rural roads and also for quick resolution of complaints received through the 'Meri Sadak' application. Modi took a review meeting on the progress in infrastructure sectors including rural housing, rural roads, coal, mining and rural electrification on Thursday evening, which lasted for more than two and a half hours....
More »Dengue list under stress
-The Telegraph Calcutta: A Calcutta High Court judge on Friday questioned the "reliability" of the Bengal government's dengue death report after a petitioner named four people who purportedly died of the disease but were not on the government's list furnished on Thursday. "What is the reliability of the government's report, then?" Justice Arijit Banerjee asked advocate-general Kishore Dutta after going through the four death certificates, each of which read "dengue NS1 Antigen...
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