-The Hindustan Times The Delhi government on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that it would issue directions to schools in the Capital to ban sale of junk food and carbonated drinks after the Centre comes up with guidelines in three months. The Centre has told the court that all India guidelines in this regard will be in place by July 21. "The Lt Governor has the power to issue directions under the...
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Minority students in Hyderabad sans Aadhaar may lose scholarship -Rohit PS
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Thousands of minority students in the city without an Aadhaar card may have to forgo their Centre-sponsored scholarship as the amount disbursal is coming to an end in a month's time and less than 20% of students have enrolled so far. The Centre has taken up direct benefit transfer through Aadhaar linkage on a PILot basis in Hyderabad, Chittoor, Anantapur, East Godavari and Rangareddy districts. The Centre approved...
More »As attacks on women increase, Supreme Court threatens to ban chemical
-PTI The Supreme Court today said it will wait for the Centre and the state governments to explore ways to regulate sale of acids for domestic use before it imposes a ban on the chemical, being increasingly used to attack women. Expressing displeasure that the matter has been pending for seven years, a bench headed by Justice R M Lodha said the apex court will consider banning sale of acids for domestic...
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KEY TRENDS • According to National Sample Survey report no. 583: Persons with Disabilities in India, the percentage of persons with disability who received aid/help from Government was 21.8 percent, 1.8 percent received aid/help from organisation other than Government and another 76.4 percent did not receive aid/ help *8 • As per National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4), the Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR) was 57.2 per 1,000 live births (for the non-STs it was 38.5)...
More »Why is Aadhaar being shoved down our throats?-R Jagannathan
-First Post Electoral logic is driving the UPA towards a patent illegality: forcing people to part with sensitive private information such as biometric data or finger-prints without having any law to protect privacy in place. As things stand, getting yourself an Aadhaar card issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is voluntary; you are not legally bound to part with this information to anyone, leave alone the UIDAI ....
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