-The Indian Express Following a Supreme Court order directing three states to compensate farmers who have refrained from burning paddy stubble on their fields, Punjab government is paying Rs 2,500 per acre. The Indian Express explains how the government is zeroing in on those managed the stubble in an environment friendly way * How many farmers have applied for compensation? The state government has received nearly 85,000 applications till date. The numbers...
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Some relief at last from scorched earth tactics
-Livemint.com Since state administrations failed to contain the noxious smoke of farmland stubble fires in north India, the Supreme Court has had to order a crackdown. Here’s what else we could do There was hope for the residents of a broad expanse of north India, who faced a public health emergency due to air pollution, a significant part of which was caused by smoke arising from the burning of crop stubble—stalks of...
More »A law alone will not serve as a panacea against torture by police in India -Yashovardhan Azad
-The Indian Express What is needed is ‘ease of policing’, better training and infrastructure Common Cause’s recent survey on the Status of Policing in India is said to have affirmed that the black sheep in the police force find nothing wrong with beating up criminals to extract a confession. It is still, however, too judgemental to suggest that torture is endemic to Indian policing, as Maja Daruwala does (‘Exorcising third-degree’, IE,...
More »Produce orders related to shutdown and detentions in Kashmir: SC to Centre
-The Indian Express The three-judge SC bench asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that why the orders concerning the imposition of restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir were not placed on record. The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to produce orders concerning the shutdown and detentions in Jammu and Kashmir, reported Bar and Bench. The three-Judge Bench of Justices NV Ramana with R Subhash Reddy and BR Gavai was hearing a petition...
More »SC wants rules for social media, gives govt 3 weeks to file affidavit -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into uncharted territory, asking the Centre to frame guidelines to regulate social media and put in place a mechanism to track origin of fake news, rumours and objectionable material like pornography on social media platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and YouTube. Pointing to social media being rampantly misused for fake news and rumours leading to mob violence and law &...
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