If Muslims come out in support of the population policy, the Yogi Adityanath government itself would likely backtrack under pressure from the Hindu Right.
Uttar Pradesh’s laggard position with higher poverty, lower literacy and lower work opportunities requires more attention than this ‘population control bill’.
Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha proposes to move a private member bill in the upcoming Monsoon session. The bill comes on the heels of UP's population control bill.
Justice (retd) AN Mittal, who heads UP law commission, said it will take at least 2 months to prepare the draft bill for two-child policy, after consultations with all stakeholders.
BJP leader & lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay had challenged a Delhi HC order that dismissed a plea seeking certain steps, including two-child norm, to control India's growing population.
Fertility rates have dipped across states, indicating India's population is stabilising. Experts point to several factors, including an increase in contraceptive use.
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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