-The New Indian Express Life after retirement has become more comfortable for Supreme Court judges as the Centre further amended the Supreme Court Judges Rules, 1959. NEW DELHI: Life after retirement has become more comfortable for Supreme Court judges as the Centre further amended the Supreme Court Judges Rules, 1959. According to the latest changes, retired Chief Justices of India will get lifetime domestic help, chauffer and secretarial assistant, besides round-the-clock security...

-Countercurrents.org The Right to Information (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by both the houses of parliament in July 2019. The opposition parties had been arguing against the proposed changes in the Right to Information Act of 2005 through this amendment. The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act, 2005) came in existence after a long movement against transparency and accountability in governance. It enabled all citizens of India the right to...

-TheWire.in A list of 136 deprived pensioners was submitted to Committee. It said, "withholding pension benefits for these persons is gross harassment." New Delhi: The Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has recommended that the Department of Personnel and Training should issue guidelines that caste certificates of SC/ST employees be verified within six months of their joining service, failing which they should be treated as authentic unless...

-The Hindu Business Line Iceland tops Mercer study on retirement income systems Old age security is a big worry for Indians as income at retirement is far from adequate for most people. Now, a global study done by Mercer Consulting validates this fear as it reveals that the Indian pension system ranks a lowly 40 in a comparative index of 43 systems. The primary objective of this annual survey by the global management...

-The Hindu There are many ways in which women’s burden at home can be reduced by the government Women everywhere carry a disproportionately higher burden of unpaid work, namely, unpaid domestic services as well as unpaid care of children, the old and the disabled for their respective households. Though this work contributes to overall well-being at the household level and collectively at the national level, it is invisible in the national database...