-The Hindu These cases can expose a large population to the virus than would otherwise occur Chennai: Eighty-six per cent of people in China who were infected with novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) were not tested in the two-week period before travel restrictions came into force on January 23 in Wuhan and other cities. And these undetected cases contributed to the majority of virus spread in the community, says a paper published in the...
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No meetings of SC, ST committees held in 25 States in 3 years -Damini Nath
-The Hindu The panels are meant to monitor the implementation of SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act The State-level committees meant to monitor the implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 of 25 States and Union Territories had not met even once in three years — 2016, 2017 and 2018, according to information provided by the Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry to Parliament on Tuesday. Please...
More »Potentially Hazardous Changes Proposed under CSR Rules -Noshir H Dadrawala
-MoneyLife.in A news item published in the Business Standard on “New draft rules set to clamp down on CSR activities through trusts” has caused mass panic and pandemonium since morning. While it is good to be vigilant and leave no scope for ambiguity and address any vagueness in the language of the proposed new Rules (while we still can), let’s not get unduly alarmed either. There is time and adequate scope...
More »Ranjan Gogoi’s RS nomination: Has last bastion fallen, asks Justice Lokur -Seema Chishti
-The Indian Express In January 2018, Justices Gogoi, Lokur, J Chelameswar, and Kurian Joseph, the most senior judges then in the Supreme Court, in an unprecedented step, called a press conference to question the conduct of then CJI Dipak Misra, especially on the allocation of important cases. Reacting sharply to the nomination of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi as a Rajya Sabha member by the government, his former colleague Justice (retired) Madan B...
More »How COVID-19 has popularised unfamiliar terms and added new vocabulary -Rekha Dixit
-TheWeek.in COVID-19 has changed many things—from the way we wash our hands to the language we COVID-19 has changed many things—from the way we wash our hands to the language we speak. The pandemic has created a whole new vocabulary, resuscitating some words which were always there, but rather rusty from disuse, and creating several new terms to explain an unprecedented situation. Please click here to read more. ...
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