-PTI The Supreme Court said that the words 'adult male person' were contrary to the object of affording protection to women who have suffered from domestic violence 'of any kind'. New delhi: In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court has widened the scope of the Domestic Violence Act by ordering deletion of the words “adult male” from it, paving the way for prosecution of women and even non-adults for subjecting a woman...
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Now, healing with 'qualified' quacks -R Prasad
-The Hindu The State has taken the lead in providing some essential and basic health-care training to these informal providers. In West Bengal, nearly 3,000 quacks — informal health-care providers with no formal medical education — are to be trained for six months. The crash course in medicine, and to be conducted by 130 trained nurses, is to begin from December 1. The objective is to provide these informal providers with a minimum...
More »PMO received 10 lakh RTI queries in 20 months -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW delhi: The Prime Minister's Office has received over 1,500 petitions a day for the last 20 months. In response to a RTI query PMO revealed that it had received 10 lakh petitions — that is RTI applications, grievances, complaints — between June 1, 2014 to January 31, 2016. Gurgaon based Aseem Takyar had sought to know how many complaints and grievances were received in the PM's...
More »Key to urbanisation is monetising land value: NITI Aayog CEO
-The Hindu Business Line New delhi: The key to urbanisation is the ability to monetise land value, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Friday. "If you look at the two bordering cities across delhi - Gurgaon and Noida - they have not been able to monetise land value and plough it back to develop the cities," Kant said at a session on 'Cities as engines of growth' at the India Economic...
More »The goat ATMs of Badaun empower women -Usha Rai
-The Hindu Business Line In Uttar Pradesh, women find their calling in rearing small livestock The ten women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs) or samoohs of Naithu village of Badaun, Uttar Pradesh are doing such good business in goat rearing that they call them their ATM cards. The 120 women of these samoohs were not affluent enough to buy buffaloes and cows despite the loans available, so they settled for rearing goats, paying Rs....
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