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Don't know who are 'Urban Naxals': Govt replies to RTI query -Ashok Upadhyay

-IndiaToday.in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and many senior members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have used the term 'Urban Naxals' in public speeches to attack their opponents. The Left Wing Extremism Division in the Union Home Ministry does not have any information on who are 'Urban Naxals' and where do they operate. This was revealed in an RTI application filed India Today TV. This comes close on...

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NGOs fear more harassment as Modi government changes rules for registrations -Vijayta Lalwani

-Scroll.in Non-profit organisations will now have to renew their registrations under the Income Tax Act every five years. On February 1, when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the Budget in Parliament, she presented a number of amendments under the Finance Bill 2020. Some of these alter the validity of registrations granted to Indian non-governmental organisations. The Bill, which will come into effect on June 1, amends certain SECtions under the Income Tax...

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Economic Survey: Focus on wealth of big business than wealth and health of nation -Surajit Das

-Newsclick.in The Economic Survey 2019-20 indicates that the government’s broad policy direction will remain the same -- of neglecting the social SECtor and serving the interests of the big businesses. This year’s Economic Survey begins with emphasising the importance of wealth of nations (inspired by Adam Smith) and depicts long-term contributions of the US, China, India and various other countries in world GDP (gross domestic product). The shares of China and India...

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Reducing custodial deaths -MP Nathanael

-The Hindu The Indian police continue to torture suspects in custody as they are rarely punished On October 13, 2019, Pradeep Tomar, a SECurity guard, rushed with his 10-year-old son to Pilkhua police station in Hapur district in Uttar Pradesh. He had been summoned for interrogation in connection with a murder case. The son later said that his father was brutally tortured by the policemen in front of him for hours. When...

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No plan to amend Constitution to include Net access as fundamental right, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

-The Hindu Minister for Communications justifies imposition of Internet blockade in Jammu and Kashmir New Delhi: Minister for Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday justified the imposition of Internet blockade in Jammu and Kashmir by stating that national SECurity trumped over the right to use the Internet and the blockade would be reviewed periodically based on the law and order situation in the region. Mr. Prasad, who was answering a question in the...

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