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Sunday, October 12, 2025
TopicPaternity Leave

Topic: Paternity Leave

Centre amends 50-yr-old rule, allows 6-month maternity leave for govt employees in case of surrogacy

According to changes made in Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972, commissioning father, with less than 2 surviving children, may be granted paternity leave of 15 days.

Who’s your daddy? Why a DNA test is not best positioned to answer this

It might not be the right question anyway. A better one is, what does society want a father to be?

Paternity leave can help close the gender pay gap, say experts

Large swaths of Asia including India and China have policies only for maternity leave.

Indian fathers get no paid paternity leave, despite high infant population

UNICEF says policy makers in India have proposed a national Paternity Benefit Bill which would allow fathers up to three months of paid paternity leave.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.