-The Times of India NEW DELHI: UPA is likely to miss the target of constructing 20 km of highway per day during the election year, with the latest road transport and highways ministry data showing just 1,183 km has been constructed in the first quarter of the current fiscal. At the current pace, the per day construction is little over 13.14 km as against 15.7 km in 2012. During 2012-13, 5,732 km...
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Govt in a fix over lowering age of consent to 16 yrs -Moushumi Das Gupta
-The Hindustan Times The government seems to have tied itself in a knot over its proposed move to reduce the age of consent for sex from 18 to 16 years in the new criminal laws (amendment) bill that will replace the February 3 ordinance on rape laws. The draft bill incorporating the fresh changes is likely to come up for cabinet approval this week. Sources said the women and child development (WCD) ministry...
More »IAC Urges Goa Guv to Withhold Assent to Lokayukta Act
-Outlook Panaji: India Against Corruption (IAC) has urged Goa Governor B V Wanchoo to withhold his assent to recently amended Goa Lokayukta Act, saying some clauses in the legislation might render the anti-corruption ombudsman a "toothless" entity. "Section 16 (A) in the amended Act, which says that minister may resign if found guilty by Lokayukta should be replaced with the word 'shall'. The existing amendment makes the entire body a toothless one",...
More »Regressive clause clashes with IPC rape laws-Manoj Mitta
If the Bill seeking to protect children from sexual offences is passed by Parliament in the form in which it was cleared last week by the Cabinet, then there will be a direct but unstated conflict between the general and special laws on rape. Under the special law proposed in the freshly revised "Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Bill" , no person below 18 years will have the legal capability...
More »In 8 yrs, Cong income up by seven times by Gopu Mohan
What can power do to a political party’s financial health? Quite a lot, it seems. An RTI query by a Chennai-based activist shows that the income of India’s longest-ruling national party, the Indian National Congress, increased from Rs 69.55 crore in 2002-03 to a whopping Rs 467.57 crore in 2010-11. Documents accessed by activist V Gopalakrishnan show that the jump is even more evident when figures from 2003-04 are compared with...
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