-The Hindu Panel made details of incident, witnessed by street-children, part of its report It is almost a month since the Justice Verma Committee came out with its recommendations to make laws more stringent to deal with crimes against women, particularly sexual assault cases. Though the government acted swiftly by bringing out an ordinance to make amendments in criminal laws, it seems to have overlooked some crucial portions of the report which...
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Supreme Court stays execution of Veerappan's aides -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Veerappan's aides till Wednesday. The apex court said though the petition filed by an advocate on behalf of the convicts is not maintainable, the case of 4 condemned prisoners were similar to the case of other death row convicts pending consideration of the Supreme Court. SC's decision came after the defence advocate informed the court that he has now got...
More »Child hit by stray bullet but police won’t own blame
-The Hindu Ranchi: Late Tuesday morning, Malo Devi, a farmer at Manatu, 20 km from Ranchi, carried her infant grandson Gautam Mahto in her arms across the fields behind her house and had just set him down on a flat rock under a tree, before she started gathering dry leaves for fuel, when she heard a whizzing sound. Three-year-old Gautam lay bleeding, hit in the left leg by a stray bullet...
More »SC fumes over sex tests, female foeticide
-IANS The Supreme Court Tuesday expressed its concern over the deteriorating sex ratio and chided state governments over their failure to check sex determination clinics and punish law violators fuelling female foeticide. "People have a belief that if they don't have a male child they will go to narak (hell)", the court said, asking "where is this narak"? The Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention) Act, 1994, bans determination of the sex of...
More »Gujarat MP first to get ISO stamp for his office
-NYDailyNews.com AHMEDABAD--Gujarat's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader C R Patil has become India's first member of parliament (MP) to obtain to an ISO certification 9001: 2008 for his office for excellent role in implementing government schemes for the public. Patil, who represents Navsari in south Gujarat in the Lok Sabha, received the prestigious certificate at a recent function in Surat from Sandeep Vig, regional director of Intertek Moody, a leading international provider...
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