-The Times of India The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has questioned giving Indira Gandhi International Airport land totaling 4,800 acres to Delhi International Airport Pvt Ltd (DIAL) — the government's joint venture with the Hyderabad-based GMR Group — on a lease rent of Rs 100 per annum, apart from a one-time fee of Rs 6.19 crore for 190.19 acres. Of this land, 240 acres worth Rs 24,000 crore would...
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Indian men can be raped, not sexually harassed-Manoj Mitta
-The Times of India When it first circulated a draft Bill in 2010 to amend the rape law, the home ministry stuck to the traditional notion that men alone could commit sexual assault. But when the Cabinet cleared the Bill last month for introduction in Parliament, the offence turned "gender neutral", as revealed by a government press release. Welcome to the brave new world of gender neutrality, in which laws increasingly no...
More »Eye on polls: Minimum PF pension of Rs 1,000 a month likely-Vikas Dhoot
-The Economic Times Nearly 6 crore formal sector employees could look forward to retiring with a minimum pension of Rs 1,000 a month, in addition to their provident fund savings, if the finance ministry green signals a labour ministry proposal to increase the pension of PF subscribers. At present, most provident fund subscribers receive less than Rs 500 a month as pension after decades of service, with some getting as low as...
More »Centre blows the whistle on the Bill-J Gopikrishnan
-The Pioneer Plans to gag babus in amended Bill The UPA Government is mulling on bringing amendments to the Whistle Blowers Protection Bill, which is pending in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill was passed by Lok Sabha in the last Winter Session without any debate. According to sources, the amendments will dilute the spirit of the Bill by stripping the status of whistleblowers to officials who tried to use Government documents like Cabinet...
More »Supreme Court orders disposal of Bhopal toxic waste in six months-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu Asks Centre, M.P. to go by recommendations of monitoring and advisory committees and NIREH The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union government and Madhya Pradesh to take immediate steps for disposal of toxic waste lying in and around the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in six months. A Bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices A.K. Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar said this should be done on the recommendations of...
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