-TheWire.in Aadhaar and its many connotations have grown to be among the most burning issues on the Indian fore today, that every citizen aware of their rights should be taking note of. New Delhi: With the leak of 130 million Aadhaar numbers recently coming to light, several activists, lawyers and ordinary citizens are up in arms about what is increasingly being viewed as a government surveillance system. Keeping this in mind, on...
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Haryana districts inflating girl child stats, finds Audit -Chetna Choudhry
-The Times of India GURUGRAM: Last year, Haryana's sex ratio (the number of girls per 1,000 boys) touched 900. In the first quarter of this year, it galloped to 935. The number for March 2017 was still higher, 950. To put these numbers in perspective, the national sex ratio for children in the 2011 Census was 919. In Haryana, the number stood at 834. There is now suspicion that the remarkable surge...
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-The Hindu Business Line Need to assess impact of demonetisation on banks, says ICAI chief Vikamsey New Delhi: The CA Institute has urged the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow its members to undertake focused “special Audit” of deposit flows into the banking system during the demonetisation period, which started on November 8 and ended on December 31 last year. There is a need to assess the demonetisation...
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-The Indian Express He added that the amendment means that companies are not required now to show the names of political parties they have contributed to. Chandigarh: Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Saturday said that amendments to the Companies Act of 2013, removing cap on corporate contribution to political parties, are “basically hitting” transparency in funding. “Two things are likely to happen in future. There would be less and less...
More »Generic medicines in a digital age -Dinesh S Thakur & Prashant Reddy T
-The Hindu We need a legal mechanism to ensure that all generics are of the same standard as the innovator product The Prime Minister’s recent announcement on making it mandatory for doctors to prescribe only the generic name, and not brand name of a drug, has led to a flutter. If enacted, the move will make it illegal for Indian doctors to write out a prescription for the trademark of the drug,...
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