-Deccan Herald Clarifies that publishing and displaying Aadhaar in public is prohibited The Centre has asked the universities not to make public Aadhaar number of PhD scholars, withdrawing the university grants commission's (UGC) instruction which required all of the varsities to upload the data of their students along with their unique identification numbers on their websites since last year. “It is informed that the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits...
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Muslim Personal Laws Most Progressive of All Communities: Legal Luminaries at Kolkata Seminar
-CaravanDaily.com Advocate Flavia Agnes, who has written extensively on women’s issues said that the court ban on triple talaq will prove ineffective as Muslim men may then start deserting their wives. She also accused the media of ignorance over the subject and suggested that they were playing into the hands of vested interests by only highlighting certain kind of reports related to Muslim women. KOLKATA: “Among all personal laws, I regard Muslim...
More »NREGA workers get lowest wage hike ever, Re 1 in some states -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express In some states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the increase in daily wages under MGNREGA from April 1 is just Re 1. IN THE lowest wage hike under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme, the Centre has increased wages by an average of just 2.7 per cent this financial year. In some states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the increase in daily...
More »Home ministry blocks foreign funds for NGO that supported health ministry's anti-tobacco drive -Menaka Rao
-Scroll.in The Public Health Foundation of India had been working on government programmes since 2010. The Ministry of Home Affairs has barred the Public Health Foundation of India from receiving foreign funding by revoking its registration under the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act. The ministry cited the organisation’s lobbying against tobacco use as one of the reasons for the move. However, as the foundation’s officials have pointed out, it has been working...
More »Centre bars leading NGO from receiving foreign funds under FCRA -Namrata Biji Ahuja
-TheWeek.in In a major decision that is likely to have wide-ranging repercussions, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cancelled the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), barring it from receiving foreign funds. PHFI is a public-private initiative that aims to strengthen training, research and policy development in public health. The NGO was launched by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006. The...
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