-The Indian Express Ahmedabad: Manubhai Karsanbhai Patel, a retired policeman who was the first investigating officer in the Dipda Darwaza massacre case, on Monday became the first policeman to be convicted and sentenced in any of the post-Godhra riot cases. Patel was charged with not filing an accurate FIR, not Reporting that 11 people had gone missing on the day of the riot and not protecting evidence of the massacre. He was...
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Online rule for all foetal scans-Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph The Centre has made it mandatory for clinics as well as radiology and diagnostic centres to register ultrasound tests of all pregnant women through an online form. The requirement under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (PNDT) Act is part of efforts to curb female foeticide. The decision to track all pregnancies — from conception to birth — was taken at a recent meeting of the central supervisory board (CSB), a...
More »Tax payers ignorance costs Rs 660 crore to government every year: TaxSpanner Report-Vidyalaxmi
-The Economic Times More than 94% of employees in India do not report income from other sources. This causes a loss of approximately Rs 660 crore to exchequer annually, says a report by TaxSpanner.com, a tax filing online portal. "More than 94 per cent of employees - liable to pay more than 10 per cent of their taxable income as tax - do not report income under the head, "Other Sources"," the...
More »Child marriages still rampant in North-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Every fourth girl married in rural Rajasthan and every fifth girl married in rural Bihar and Jharkhand is less than 18 years -- this despite several measures taken by the government to check child marriages in the country. Only 50 per cent deliveries are considered safe in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh and just about 45 per cent children are fully immunised in Uttar Pradesh. The percentage of men getting married...
More »Nothing wrong in Mumbai Police imposing ‘right values’-V Gangadhar
-The Hindu A farmhouse at Igatpuri, near Mumbai yielded six skeletons. Expensive flats in posh suburbs at Andheri and Oshiwara were scenes of gruesome murders. Mumbai no longer needs horror movies or comics. Open the newspapers every morning, the horror stories hit you. Not just murder, but decapitation and further mutilation. A disgruntled man thought nothing of bashing to death six members of his family and burying their bodies. The inside...
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