-Hindustan Times Sebi and some of the other regulators initially opposed the PLAn, citing concerns about loss of autonomy, but the government wants to go ahead with its PLAn, and finalise the transfer before the next budget is presented on February 1, 2020. New Delhi: The government is pushing ahead with its PLAn, underlined in Union Budget 2019, to transfer 75% of market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) surplus...
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CAA, NRC may affect status of India's Muslim minority: Congressional Research Service
-PTI The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India’s history, a religious criterion has been added to the country’s naturalization process Washington: The amended Citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being PLAnned by the Narendra Modi government “may affect the status” of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said. The December 18 report also said that...
More »UP protest in numbers: toll up to 19, over 1100 arrested, 5500 detained -Manish Sahu
-The Indian Express This is the biggest police crackdown in Uttar Pradesh since the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots when 1,480 people were arrested in 567 cases. The riots had claimed 63 lives and disPLAced an estimated 50,000 people. Lucknow: As the death toll in protests against the new citizenship law climbed to 19 in Uttar Pradesh Thursday, the state police said it had arrested 1,113 people in 327 cases registered so far and...
More »The Data Protection Bill only weakens user rights -Apar Gupta
-The Hindu A culmination of flawed policy proposals, this piece of legislation will refine, store and trade personal information In the continuing social churn and widespread citizen protests, it would seem out of PLAce to direct thought towards issues such as data protection. The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha this month, is a revolutionary piece of legislation that promises to return power and control to...
More »Media images of 'National Population Register 2020 forms' spark confusion -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu A Ministry of Home Affairs spokesperson told The Hindu that the form or the schedule to collect data for the NPR has not been finalised yet. Confusion prevailed after images of forms of ‘National Population Register (NPR) 2020’ seeking details on “PLAce of birth of father and mother” started doing the rounds on social media, even though Home Minister Amit Shah clarified a day ago that there was “no link...
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