-The Times of India GURGAON: A local RTI activist, O P Kataria, who has been actively campaigning againstGurgaon MLA Sukhbir Kataria, has accused the latter of harassing him. The MLA is clouded by a controversy over alleged fake voter ID cards in the last assembly elections. According to O P Kataria, about 10 policemen barged into his house on Tuesday morning and tried to fraudulently implicate his wife in a land case. "These...
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Two young women file plaint to annul their childhood marriages
-The Hindu Encouraging signs of girls trying to break shackles of outdated customs in Rajasthan Depicting encouraging signals of girls trying to break the shackles of outdated customs, two instances of young women repudiating their childhood marriages in defiance of diktats of the caste elders have come up in Rajasthan. In both the cases, the community members have allegedly threatened the girls' families. Twenty-year-old Rekha Kumari, a resident of Peepar in Jodhpur district,...
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-The Hindu “The aim of education is social development, and not profit-making. ‘Education shops' must either not be allowed to function or must not have profit as their motive,” said Anil Sadgopal, presidium member, All India Forum for Right to Education (AIF-RTE). Announcing that the State Platform for Common School System (SPCSS) along with the AIF-RTE will be organising a two-day all-India conference for ‘Abolishing commercialisation of education and building a...
More »Beed doctors in police custody
-The Hindu A doctor-couple from Beed, who had been on the run after they were found to have been carrying out illegal abortions and sex-determination tests, surrendered before the district police on Sunday. On Monday, a Local court in Beed remanded them in police custody till June 30. Sudam Munde and his wife, Saraswati Munde, have been absconding since the end of last month. A sting operation revealed that their clinic flouted...
More »Why It’s So Hard to Fix Land Acquisition-Tripti Lahiri
India Inc. was aghast at the recent report of a parliamentary committee that recommended that a new draft land acquisition law limit occasions when the government may intervene to acquire land for use by private firms. But in a paper published in the Economic and Political Weekly last month, Delhi University economics professor Ram Singh laid out data that supports the committee’s recommendations. Mr. Singh argues that government-driven land acquisition is generally...
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