-The Economic Times A Bill that envisages offering the rural poor right to land and a home has invited criticism from states for not consulting them and for being "impractical". Land is a state subject. The National Right to Homestead Bill, 2013 - drafted by a task force chaired by Union minister Jairam Ramesh -would offer a poor family in the country side right to a piece of land of not less...
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Highest number of atrocities against dalits in UP: Punia-Bahadurjit Singh
-PunjabNewsline.com BUNGA SAHIB (Ropar): Uttar Pradesh have the highest number of cases relating to atrocities against dalits in the country, said National Scheduled Castes Commission chairman PL Punia while talking to media persons at village Bunga Sahib about 20 kilometres from Ropar today. Punia was at Bunga Sahib to unveil the statute of BSP founder Kanshi Ram on his birth anniversary today. He said that Uttar Pradesh had a large population and feudal...
More »Delhi Police tried to shield accused of ’84 riots, asserts CBI
-PTI CBI on Friday alleged that the Delhi Police had failed to act against the main culprits and had tried to shield the accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar along with others is facing trial in a court here. Continuing the final arguments, senior advocate R S Cheema, who appeared for the CBI, told District Judge J R Aryan that the two Delhi Police officials...
More »Some MP lawmakers appreciate women in 'ghunghat'
-The Times of India BHOPAL: It may not be a sexist remark, but exchanges between lawmakers during the Zero Hour in the Madhya Pradesh assembly on Friday did indicate that some of them appreciate women behind "ghunghat". The reference to "ghunghat" (veil) came during a calling attention motion when BJP MLA from Amarwada constituency in Chhindwara district, Prem Narayan Thakur, demanded regularisation of observers working for the different education schemes. Thakur was previously...
More »Roadblocks ahead for anti-rape Bill -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu SP, BSP unhappy with some provisions A Bill providing for tougher punishment for crimes against women, including rape, acid attack, stalking and voyeurism, was approved by the Union Cabinet on Thursday, after a Group of Ministers, constituted to prescribe safeguards, completed its examination of the draft law in a record two days. On March 18, The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, will be discussed at an all-party meeting before it goes...
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