-ThePrint.in A Delhi-based legal resource group says its study analyses district and high court case law pertaining to child marriage in India between 2008 and 2017. New Delhi: Child marriage cases in India have primarily been filed against incidents of elopement, as opposed to arranged or forced marriages, revealed a new study that aims to understand if the existing legislation — Prohibition of Child Marriage Act — serves its purpose. Delhi-based ‘legal resource...
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DMK govt.’s agri goals realisable, but hurdles lie ahead -T Ramakrishnan
-The Hindu State govt. has an ambitious target of transforming fallow lands into productive lands Several challenges lie in the task of realising the DMK government’s goals of transforming 11.75 lakh hectares of fallow lands into productive lands and doubling the double-cropped area, in 10 years, say veteran agricultural experts and farmers. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Sedition for CAA School Play: Karnataka HC Says Police Violated JJ Act, Child Rights
-TheWire.in "Why children are subjected to all this? This has to be corrected, this can't go on like this," the court said. New Delhi: The Karnataka high court on Monday, August 17, observed that the presence of policemen in uniform, carrying firearms, while interrogating children in connection with a sedition case for an anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) theatre play staged at Shaheen Education Society in Bidar last year is in violation of...
More »A third of India’s coastline underwent erosion in 28 years, Bengal worst affected -Ashis Senapati
-Down to Earth 27% of coastline expanded between 1990 and 2018, according to a report by Union Ministry of Earth Sciences As much as 32 per cent of India’s coastline underwent sea erosion and 27 per cent of it expanded between 1990 and 2018, according to a recent technical report by the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) under the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences. The West Bengal coastline has been particularly vulnerable:...
More »Mapping exercise rectifies errors for NFSA families
-The Hindu As many as 25 lakh mistakes rectified during the first phase An exercise launched in Rajasthan for mapping and seeding of beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) has led to rectification of errors relating to over 7 lakh families in 95 blocks. After the completion of first phase, the upcoming phases of the exercise will be run in a “mission mode”. State Food and Planning Secretary Naveen Jain said...
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