-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over the loss of lives and public property during agitations, which have continued despite guidelines framed by it, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to bring a law to fix liability on people who could be prosecuted and made to pay compensation for indulging in and abetting mob violence. A bench of Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit said a...
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Deaths in road accidents see steepest decline ever -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Fatalities in road accidents have declined by 5,000 during three quarters of 2017 (January to September) in comparison to the same period in 2016. This is also the steepest ever reduction in road deaths, according to the data shared by state governments with Supreme Court appointed panel on road safety. Among major states, Punjab has recorded the maximum decline in road deaths by 14.4% followed...
More »Delhi,NCR towns need to fight air pollution together -Shivani Singh
-Hindustan Times While Delhi came under flak for running fewer buses than that it did three years ago and therefore failing to enforce blanket road rationing, compliance of even basic anti-pollution measures was impossible in the NCR because of poor infrastructure. The Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) mandated by the Supreme Court to counter air pollution was meant to be an effort in regional cooperation. The entire National Capital Region (NCR), which...
More »Transgender rights: House panel proposed, govt rejects -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express The report recommended specific provisions in the ministry’s version of the transgender Bill, to safeguard their rights, protect them against discrimination, and provide quotas in government colleges and jobs. The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to junk the recommendations of a parliamentary committee report which was the first ever government document to recognise the rights of transgender persons to partnerships and marriage, so that they...
More »Tamil Nadu's MGNREGA Workers Left in the Lurch Due to Delayed Wages, Unused Funds -Divya Karthikeyan
-TheWire.in In 2016-17, pending payments under the employment scheme in the state amounted to a whopping Rs 5,571 crore. Tiravur, Tamil Nadu: “I could kill someone,” said Janaki Chinarasu in early June at her home in Tiruvarur, protecting her forehead from the heat with her hands askew. “It’s like the sun god has conspired with the rain god to punish us.” Chinarasu is a frail, strong-witted woman with a five-year-old on her lap...
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