Based on the orders of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Puducherry government has paid Rs. 3 lakh to the wife of an undertrial prisoner – Silvaraj alias Siva – who died on August 15, 2009 in the Central prison at Kalapet (Puducherry) when he was assaulted by five inmates. The NHRC, after considering various reports, including the Post-mortem and conclusions of magisterial inquiry, found that Silvaraj was admitted to...
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Change in scavenging Act soon, court told by J Venkatesan
The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that appropriate steps would soon be taken to amend the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 to eliminate manual scavenging. Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval told a Bench of Justices H.L. Dattu and C.K. Prasad that necessary amendments would be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament. The ASG also assured the court that the government would...
More »Retrospective amendment of I-T Act not specific to Vodafone case: Pranab by Ashok Dasgupta
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee maintained on Sunday that the budgetary proposal to amend the Income Tax Act with retrospective effect from 1962 to assert the government's right to levy tax on merger and acquisition (M&A) deals involving overseas companies with business assets in India is not Vodafone “case specific,” but an enabling provision to protect the fiscal interests of the country and avert the chances of a crisis. Faced with all-round...
More »Rural service for medical students to be made compulsory from this year
-The Hindu Legislation in this regard likely to be in place by this month-end: Ramdas One year of rural service for medical students will be made compulsory from this year, Medical Education Minister S.A. Ramdas announced this at the graduation day of the first batch of the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) here on Saturday. As many as 148 candidates graduated on Saturday. Despite not receiving an enthusiastic response from the audience...
More »‘Election ke kharchon ka target abhi se de diya hai’-Ashutosh Bhardwaj
There is a new twist to the alleged suicide of Bilaspur SP Rahul Sharma. One of the officer’s closest friends has said that a week before Sharma allegedly shot himself, he had fretted about being made to do “begaar” (literally, forced labour), and that he had been given a “target” for “election expenses”. Sharma was found dead at the Bilaspur police officers’ mess on March 12. A day later, IG G...
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