-The Hindu Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on the petition by a law student The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to respond to a plea filed by a law student seeking the implementation of the Justice J.S. Verma Committee report on crime against women and children. The court issued notices to the government on a plea by B. Srinivas Goud, represented by advocates Ramaswami Balaji and Shravan Kumar, for...
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Nearly half a billion people can't find decent work; unemployment set to rise: new UN labour report
-United Nations News Around half a billion people work fewer paid hours than they would like, or are not getting enough access to paid work, shows a study published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Monday, which also forecasts that unemployment will rise by about 2.5 million this year. After nine years of relatively stable global unemployment, the World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020 puts the rising jobless numbers down...
More »The Indian Constitution, in numbers -Vishnu Padmanabhan & Pooja Dantewadia
-Livemint.com Nearly 70 years after it first came into effect on 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India—which is a 146,385-word tome—has outlived most peers In the recent student-led protests, the Indian Constitution has been a recurring theme. Protesters are loudly reading out the preamble of the Constitution in defiance because they believe that fundamental Constitutional principles are being weakened by the ruling government. This is not the first time that there...
More »63 Indian billionaires wealth higher than the Union Budget for 2018-19: Oxfam
-PTI * Oxfam said the combined total wealth of 63 Indian billionaires is higher than the total Union Budget of India for the fiscal year 2018-19 * The report flagged that global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast and the number of billionaires has doubled in the last decade Davos: India's richest 1 per cent hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70...
More »Cops as private armies of politicians? Worth surveying citizen's trust in police -Vipul Mudgal
-Outlook.com The obligation of the police is not only to control crime and maintain peace but to do in an unbiased and even-handed manner, writes Vipul Mudgal A disturbing template of policing is emerging in India: one of selective and disproportionate action against some, deliberate inaction against others and collusion with a section of troublemakers. All these at the cost of neutrality and fair play. If there is something ominous about the...
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