-The Hindu Business Line Controversial ‘bail-in’ clause had unnerved bank depositors New Delhi: The government has decided to drop the controversial Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, thus allowing bank customers to breath easy. The Union Cabinet, which met on Wednesday, decided to drop this Bill, a senior Cabinet Minister told BusinessLine. This means the present system of insurance deposits will continue and customers will not have to worry about the ‘bail-in’...
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Government Has No Data on Lynching Cases, Union Minister Tells Rajya Sabha
-PTI The minister's response comes a day after the Supreme Court had asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching. New Delhi: The government does not maintain specific data on lynching incidents in the country, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. Union minister of state for home affairs Hansraj Ahir said the state governments were competent to deal with such offences under the existing laws. “The...
More »'Violence can't be allowed': SC condemns mob lynchings, asks Parliament to make law -Bhadra Sinha
-Hindustan Times The Supreme Court was hearing a bunch of petitions on the recent lynching incidents in the country. New Delhi: The Supreme Court asked Parliament to come up with an anti-lynching law to tackle cow vigilantism and lynch mobs even as it laid down preventive, remedial, and punitive measures against the backdrop of a spate of such incidents across the country. The measures laid down by the court also include steps to...
More »How Lok Sabha members fared in the last four years -K Deepalakshmi Varun & B Krishnan
-The Hindu Many BJP MPs make it to the list of top 10 performers based on attendance, questions asked, and debates participated. The monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 18 and it marks the beginning of the fifth year of the 16th Lok Sabha. With barely a year to go for the general election, here is an analysis, based on the data available in the Lok Sabha and...
More »We'll strike down any law that violates rights, says SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Reserving its verdict on pleas seeking decriminalisation of Section 377 of the IPC to protect sexual orientation of LGBTs, the Supreme Court refused to leave the matter to Parliament and asserted its right on Tuesday to overturn and change laws enacted by a majority government if they were violative of fundamental rights. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices R F Nariman, A M...
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