-Hindustan Times Some violations of the air and water acts, the environment protection law, and the public liability insurance law that deals with providing relief to victims of accidents while handling hazardous substances in industries will be decriminalised to remove the fear of imprisonment, the ministry said. New delhi: Violation of certain environmental regulations may soon be decriminalised, although they would attract stiffer penalties, according to public consultation papers released by the...

-Newsclick.in In a convention held at BTR Bhawan in the national capital, the CITU-backed federation also gave a call for a four-day ‘Mahapadav’ from July 26 in New delhi. New delhi: Demanding that the central and the state governments provide gratuity, a basic social security measure, to all the anganwadi caregivers in the country, the All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) on Saturday called for a four-day ‘Mahapadav’ from...

-The Hindu Only 12,588 people got jobs through the delhi Government’s Rozgar Bazaar portal National convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders have been claiming for the past several months that their government has provided 10 lakh jobs in the private sector to delhiites through its Rozgar Bazaar portal. But only 12,588 people had actually secured jobs through the portal till May...

-ThePrint.in ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took. New delhi: The arrest of social activist Teesta Setalvad and Indian Police Service (IPS) officer R.B. Sreekumar Sunday following the Supreme Court’s clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought back the 2002 Gujarat riots on the front pages of Urdu papers.  On 24 June, the Supreme Court dismissed a...

-Article-14.com India’s national auditor says that Aadhaar, the national identity database and one of the world’s largest, is not finding and plugging leaks as it should. That is leading to rising frauds, hacks, data breaches and other misuse. Some of its failures have denied government services to the country’s most vulnerable. Experts advise restricting Aadhaar’s use and spread, but the government is not open to even addressing or fixing its problems. New...