-The Hindu Apex court lays down guidelines for matrimonial cases. The Supreme Court on November 4 held that deserted wives and children are entitled to alimony/maintenance from the husbands from the date they apply for it in a court of Law. In a significant judgment by a Bench of Justices Indu Malhotra and R. Subhash Reddy, the top court said women deserted by husbands were left in dire straits, often reduced to destitution,...
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Delhi riots: Judge to go for physical inspection in jail if grievances of accused persist
-PTI/ The Indian Express During a hearing held through video conferencing, seven out of the 15 accused said they have not been given warm clothes, though it is permitted under the prison rules, and the Jail authorities said they need court order for it. A Delhi court Tuesday expressed displeasure with Tihar jail authorities after several accused in a case related to the February riots in north-east Delhi stated they have not...
More »Why Rajasthan Farm Act amendments may lack the teeth to help farmers -Sukhpal Singh
-Business Standard Rajasthan has amended The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (promotion and facilitation) Act, 2020 to restore what it calls 'the safeguards for the farmers of the state' as under state's APMC Act The Congress-ruled states’ plan to nullify the three central Laws on agricultural markets and provide for alternatives of their own for protection of famer interest, especially on prices for their produce has been executed with three states of...
More »Other side of APMC repeal: Bihar farmers want mandis, ‘like Punjab’ -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Farmers in poll-bound Bihar are seeking mandis 'like in Punjab and Haryana' Begusarai, Khagaria: In 2006, Nitish Kumar’s government showed the way by repealing Bihar’s Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act and allowing crops to be freely traded outside the state’s regulated mandis. But 14 years on – when the Narendra Modi government at the Centre has enacted a Law dismantling the monopoly of APMC mandis all over India and...
More »Mandi arrivals: Seven key summer crops see big drop -Prabhudatta Mishra & Nanda Kasabe
-Financial Express Only three crops -- groundnut, jowar and moong -- have recorded higher arrivals on year (see chart). Even in the case of jowar and moong, arrivals fell in the largest-producing states of Maharashtra (-39%) and Rajasthan (-7%), respectively. Amid the row over the three new federal farm Laws aimed at giving unfettered market access to farmers, the producers of various crops seem to have started to rely much less on...
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