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TopicPopulation control

Topic: Population control

Tax sops, incentives in jobs & education: Sena MP moves bill to promote 2-child policy

Shiv Sena MP Anil Desai moves Constitution (Amendment) Bill to check population growth, says those not adhering to small family norm shouldn't get incentives.

RSS wants national debate on population control, but will focus on creating awareness first

According to the RSS’ initial assessment, most political parties are likely to support the issue the way they did when Article 370 was scrapped in Jammu and Kashmir.

No govt jobs for those with more than 2 children: Can Assam’s plan check population growth?

The Assam government announced this week that people who have more than two children will not be eligible for government jobs, with effect from 1 January 2021.

Court junks plea for population control law after Modi govt silence

The Delhi High Court has disposed of a petition that sought directions to the Modi government to devise a population-control law. 

‘Population Control Board’ to get a bigger office and ‘new chapter’ begins in Kashmir

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Modi govt has been working for a Uniform Civil Code and we didn’t even notice. Until now

In the absence of 'common civil code', religious prerogative of one community in a secular society has become a contentious issue in India.

Growth pangs, jobs crisis seen to be behind Modi’s call for population control

In his I-Day address Thursday, PM Modi equated family planning to patriotism as he called for population control.

Does Modi’s population control call signal India unable to leverage demographic dividend?

In his Independence Day speech, PM Narendra Modi said India needs to control its population.

‘Keeping one’s family small an act of patriotism’: PM Modi calls for population control

Addressing the issue for the first time, PM Modi expressed concern over the steep rise in India's population, and said the Centre and states should look at measures to deal with it.

India gets its biggest defence reform but the key lies in mandate given to CDS

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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.