-The Hindu The new law has safeguards, including bail to the accused before the start of trial New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared an ordinance that makes talaq-e-biddat, or instant triple talaq, a criminal offence that will attract a maximum jail term of three years. President Ram Nath Kovind later in the day gave his assent. The new law, however, incorporates safeguards, including a provision for bail to an accused before...
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The power of Kudumbashree -Brinda Karat
-The Hindu The Kerala model can be implemented across India with the same secular and gender-sensitive spirit Kumari died on September 1. She had contracted leptospirosis while doing relief work in Kerala after the floods, away from her own home which had not been affected. She was a health volunteer and prominent member of the Kudumbashree Mission in her panchayat in Ernakulum district. Kumari’s work and life symbolises the spirit of Kerala...
More »Rice, wheat producing countries should be concerned about India's trade-distorting policy: US
-PTI The US has alleged that India is providing massive subsidies to its farmers producing rice and wheat and said that other countries need to be concerned about New Delhi's "trade distorting policy". Chief Agricultural Negotiator Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) Gregory Doud made the comments during a Congressional hearing Thursday. "Every rice- or wheat-producing country around the world should be concerned about the trade effects of India's trade distorting domestic...
More »Demonetisation findings accessed: Eight reasons why BJP wants DeMo report buried
-TimesNowNews.com Times Now has accessed the demonetisation draft report which has upset the BJP, whose MPs want the report suppressed. And there are eight reasons why the BJP doesn’t want to face the report in Parliament. New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by Congress leader Veerappa Moily, has concluded in its draft report that demonetisation, announced by the Narendra Modi government in November 2016, had led to at...
More »Cong piles Gujarat firm heat on Modi
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Congress on Monday demanded that the State Bank of India declare the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation bankrupt as it sought to puncture holes into "dream merchant" Narendra Modi's "Mr Clean" image, armed with an RBI circular on Resolution of Stressed Assets. Senior party leader Jairam Ramesh said the February 12 Reserve Bank circular mandated that any company that owed more than Rs 2,000 crore to banks on...
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