-The Hindu Stay refused, time granted to RBI to amend regulations With the Supreme Court observing on Monday that the Centre’s policy decision permitting FDI in multi-brand retail sector lacked legal sanction, the Attorney General (AG) G. E. Vahanvati assured that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would come out with amended Regulations within two weeks. A Bench of Justices R. M. Lodha and Anil R. Dave, while refusing to stay the policy...
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Centre tells states to initiate police reforms -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India Giving a new lease of life to various recommendations on police reforms including abolition of 'orderly' system in police force and evaluating quality of service at police stations by citizens, the Centre has written to states asking them to take action on several 'measures' relating to over four dozen 'functional areas' of policing which may help in improving 'law and order' machinery. Though a number of suggestions had...
More »Must poor fast to buy drugs: SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Centre on Thursday promised to notify a new drug pricing mechanism for essential medicines by the end of November, but the Supreme Court said a change in policy must not force a sharp rise in drug prices to hurt an already hassled common man. Additional solicitor general Siddharth Luthra informed a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya that a Cabinet note on the...
More »New drug policy by mid-November, Government tells Supreme Court -J Venkatesan
-The Hindu People have to go hungry for paying the medicine bill, says Judge The Union government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would put in place by mid-November a Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) after the Union Cabinet’s approval. Last week, the Bench asked the government to spell out a time frame within which a new policy would be put in place. On Thursday, Additional Solicitor-General (ASG) Siddarth Luthra told a...
More »Child marriage as remedy for rape sparks furore -Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Chautala echoes Haryana khap panchayat demand; rape not a black-and-white law and order issue, says Renuka Chowdhury Even as the former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, backed demands for new laws that will allow marriage of teenagers saying it would help end the surge in sexual crimes reported from across the State in recent weeks, a senior Congress leader has said that the State’s rape crisis was not a...
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