-The Hindu Says ?78 crore allocated for setting up special courts to try them in 11 States The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that 1,765 members of parliament and the Assemblies have criminal cases against them. Of a total 3,816 cases against them, 3,045 are still pending. Uttar Pradesh tops the list with 248 legislators, Tamil Nadu comes second with 178 and then Bihar follows with 144. Exclusive courts The affidavit by the Centre is...
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NCRB to collate data on online child sexual abuse -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu New Delhi: In a first, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has started collating data on online child sexual abuse in the country. Till now no repository of such crimes was available at the national level. The move comes after a parliamentary standing committee on home affairs pulled up officials for not reporting the cases. The panel, headed by senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, said in its report that they...
More »1.5 lakh trains delayed in last 11 months -Siddharth Prabhakar
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Ever wondered how many passenger trains arrive late every day in the country? Data tabled by the ministry of railways in parliament on Friday shows that between April 2017 and February 2018, 1.48 lakh trains, or 450 trains a day, arrived late at the destination station. The worst performers on the punctuality benchmark are mail and express trains, with 75,880 arriving late during the period. The second...
More »House panel rap on govt for slashing school funds share
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has criticised the government over the "decreasing" budgetary allocation for school education in terms of its share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the tardy progress in setting up Navodaya schools. In terms of the GDP share, the allocation has been declining for the past five years. The allocation of Rs 50,000 crore for 2018-19 is Rs 15,000 crore less than what the school...
More »Court takes first step towards taking suicide off list of crimes -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In its path-breaking verdict linking right to life with right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court on Friday took the first step towards giving judicial support to the much canvassed proposition that it was inhuman to punish a distressed person who failed to end his life through suicide. Section 309 of IPC provides that "whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards the...
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