Last year, Home Minister Amit Shah had tabled 3 new Bills in Lok Sabha, to introduce modern methods to bring about 'transformative change' in judicial system. These come into effect today.
Delhi High Court accepted pharma companies’ argument that most banned drugs had been in use for over 30 years and said health ministry had not specified reasons behind ban issued in June.
Last week, govt called for feedback on its draft notification on ‘Hirkani’ rooms. Need for such spaces came into focus after MLA Saroj Ahire attended assembly sessions with her baby.
Public Accounts Committee pulls up railway ministry for failing to implement its own 2013 directions on digging work near cables, says staff shortage not a valid reason.
Panel has asked National Commission for Women to draft fresh amendments to 1990 Act and recommended giving the body ‘additional powers to ensure accountability of police towards them’.
The panel also asks civil aviation ministry to devise a formula to regulate 'excessive surge' in air fares & says it's crucial to scrutinise audited financial data of airlines regularly.
CRS probe into Balasore triple train tragedy found it was caused by lapses on part of signal & telecommunication dept, which govt says currently has 3,638 vacant positions.
Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Bill, 2023, introduced in RS Thursday amid loud protests.
Sanyal, an economist & member of the Economic Advisory Council to PM, also suggests that if India is to import parts from China, why not allow Chinese companies to manufacture in India.
Referring to current situation, General Upendra Dwivedi says it is stable but not normal; instead, sensitive. He adds the diplomatic side can only come up with certain options.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
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