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TopicWomen and Child Development Ministry

Topic: Women and Child Development Ministry

To help women facing violence abroad, govt will set up aid centres at missions in 9 countries

Sravasti Dasgupta -
Govt is setting up 10 one-stop centres to facilitate access to a range of services — police, medical, legal, psychological support & temporary shelter — to women affected by violence.

To assess women empowerment, NITI Aayog to come up with nationwide gender index

Sanya Dhingra -
The Women in Socio-Economic or WISE Index will be on the lines of the Good Governance Index recently released by the government.

Pay higher compensation to sex crime victims, Modi govt tells states after top court order

Sanya Dhingra -
Under the new scheme, if a woman victim of sexual crimes is covered under more than one category, she’ll be entitled to a combined...

Tokenism and repackaging old provisions: Centre’s response to rise in child abuse

Sanya Dhingra -
Union ministers Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar ask NCPCR to formulate guidelines on child abuse; activists say it’s pointless because they already exist.

The government has refused to criminalise marital rape for all the wrong reasons

Mrinal Satish -
The government’s affidavit perpetuates the misconception that rape cannot be established without medical evidence.

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Opinion

Ram temple Surya Tilak was spectacular but the puffery around ‘science behind it’ wasn’t

Soumya Pillai -
We need to give credit to our attention-starved scientists for their true achievements. Perhaps a good way to start would be to not mix science with religion.

Iran-Israel conflict will now be shaped by 3H—Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah

‘Sonia wouldn’t become PM’—Congress ‘whisper campaign’ that denied PC Alexander President post

Economy

CBDT signs record 125 Advance Pricing Agreements, 31% more than last year

ThePrint Team -
The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.

Defence

Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi to take over as Chief of the Naval Staff

ThePrint Team -
He has been the chief of personnel and the flag officer commanding-in-chief, Western Naval Command, in the rank of vice admiral.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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