-PTI Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, during a debate on demonetisation in the Upper House on November 17, 2016, had termed the loan issue of Vijay Mallya a "terrible legacy" that the NDA government had inherited from the previous UPA regime. The finance ministry has told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that it does not have information about the loans given to industrialist Vijay Mallya, prompting the transparency panel to remark that the...
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Communal incidents rose 17% last year from 2016 -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Communal incidents across the country rose to 822 last year from 703 in 2016, reversing the falling trend seen in the preceding year. As many as 111 persons were killed and 2,384 injured due to communal violence in 2017, up from 86 killed and 2,321 injured in 2016. In 2016, communal incidents were down from the levels seen in 2015 (751). The death toll in 2017...
More »Aadhaar card tampering racket busted in Surat -Yagnesh Bharat Mehta
-The Times of India SURAT (Gujarat): Even as police are trying to reach the root of biometric data theft racket done to pilfer food grains issued to poor people, another scam of tampering with Aadhar data has been exposed in the city. The accused Hiren Prajapati, 26 and Prashant Pradhan, 20, both residents of Pandesara, were modifying the Aadhar Card data of individuals using a rubber thumb. They were arrested on Saturday...
More »111 killed in communal incidents last year: Minister
-The Hindu As many as 111 people were killed and 2,384 others were injured in 822 communal incidents in 2017, up from 751 such incidents in 2016, Union Minister Hansraj Ahir said on Tuesday. The highest number of communal incidents, as many as 195, was reported from Uttar Pradesh where 44 people were killed. Karnataka has seen 100 communal incidents in which nine were killed while there were 91 incidents of riots in...
More »75% Bohra women admit female genital mutilation: study -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express While 33 per cent of female respondents said FGM has had an adverse impact on their sexual life, 10 per cent of the women reported having frequent urinary tract infections, and incontinence, with one reported case of excessive bleeding. New Delhi: Belying the government’s admission to the Supreme Court that there is no data on the existence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in India, a new qualitative study...
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