-DNA It would be sad if the ghastly violence at Maruti Suzuki’s (MSIL) Manesar plant on July 18, 2012, in which a HR manager died, were to be understood simply as a ‘murderous workers’ vs ‘rational management’ kind of an incident. There is a history and a context to this violence, and how that is understood, and acknowledged, by India Inc. will indicate how serious we are about preventing such incidents...
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Tax payers ignorance costs Rs 660 crore to government every year: TaxSpanner Report-Vidyalaxmi
-The Economic Times More than 94% of employees in India do not report income from other sources. This causes a loss of approximately Rs 660 crore to exchequer annually, says a report by TaxSpanner.com, a tax filing online portal. "More than 94 per cent of employees - liable to pay more than 10 per cent of their taxable income as tax - do not report income under the head, "Other Sources"," the...
More »Everyone forgets the surrogate-Brinda Karat
-The Indian Express Government must bring the assisted reproductive technologies bill to Parliament. More stringent regulation could have saved lives Sushma Pandey, just 17 years old, reportedly died due to procedures related to egg harvesting conducted on her by a fertility clinic in Mumbai. Two years after her death, the Bombay high court did well to criticise the police for not prosecuting the hospital for its flagrant violation of the age requirement...
More »Rent-a-womb, a thriving industry unbridled by law-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Ethical, legal issues thrown to the winds as poor women play surrogate mothers Right in the heart of this city, which found a place on the atlas as the Milk Capital of India, is a ‘fertility clinic-cum-hostel’ to house women who Rent their wombs, mostly for foreign couples. The facility, which runs under the name Akanksha Fertility Clinic, caters for 30 surrogate mothers at any given point. Driven by poverty, the...
More »Bill aims to weed out Rent-a-womb clinics-Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India India is all set to weed out and check the ever mushrooming clinics involved in Renting a womb or carrying out Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). The Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation Bill, prepared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), will make it mandatory for all clinics involved in treating infertility through procedures like artificial insemination with husband's semen (AIH) or in-vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF) to get registered...
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