-Outlook Geneva: For the first time, a UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women will visit India next week to assess the overall situation of violence against women at a time when questions are being raised on the safety and security of women there. Rashida Manjoo, the Special Rapporteur, charged by the Human Rights Council to monitor violence against women, its causes and consequences worldwide, will meet with government authorities and...
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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...
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-PTI Bangalore: JDS Karnataka unit president and forMer chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and his wife Anita, contesting the May 5 Assembly elections, have together declared assets worth Rs 123 crore. With assets of Rs 150.58 crore, the list of rich candidates is topped by T N Javarayi Gowda, also from JDS headed by forMer Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, who filed his nominations from Yeshvanthpur in Bangalore yesterday. Kumaraswamy, Gowda's son,...
More »Bihar spends Rs 170cr annually guarding VIPs -Gyan Prakash
-The Times of India PATNA: Bihar spends Rs 170 crore annually deploying 5,000 police personnel out a force of 60,000 as bodyguards for politicians, judges, bureaucrats, police officers, members of constitutional bodies and other governmental functionaries. The NDA government in 2007 had created separate posts of 5,800 bodyguards which were later Merged with the police. Patna district police has 1,500 such bodyguards. One constable used to be assigned to each MLA or MLC,...
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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)...
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