Tag Lok Sabha
May 6, Mumbai MADHUMITHA SRINIVASAN Women’s groups are upset with yoga guru for his ‘honeymoon’ comment Thanks to the intervention of Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, women’s organisations here are likely to file an FIR against yoga guru Baba Ramdev… Continue Reading →
Yesterday, Lok Sabha passed the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012, which aims to eliminate the inhuman practice of manual scavenging and rehabilitation of liberated manual scavenging. The Bill would be taken up in the… Continue Reading →
12 Aug, 2013, By Kantilal Bhuria, ET Take Gujarat, whose chief minister Narendra Modi claims to have developed a unique model of growth-driven development. By Kantilal Bhuria Recently, we were witness to a noisy spat between economists Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati. Some commentators linked… Continue Reading →
Workplace Sexual Harassment The Way Things Are Vol – XLVIII No. 24, June 15, 2013 | Naina Kapur , EPW Sixteen years after the landmark Vishaka case judgment of the Supreme Court, the government introduced in the Lok Sabha in September 2012 a… Continue Reading →
After the hate speeches, a shocking subversion of the law. Rahul Kotiyal and Atul Chaurasia chronicle how BJP’s Varun Gandhi played dirty to save his political future Rahul Kotiyal Atul Chaurasia This is a story about a terrible travesty. Varun Gandhi, 33, has recently… Continue Reading →
Vol – XLVIII No. 13, March 30, 2013 , Editorial Who will be the real beneficiaries of the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme? Why is there little or practically no information in the 2013-14 budget on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh… Continue Reading →
Published: Sunday, Mar 24, 2013, 9:00 IST By Yogesh Pawar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Sex workers and women’s rights activists have welcomed the government’s move to differentiate ‘prostitution’ from exploitation in the amended Section 370 of the Indian Penal Code…. Continue Reading →
Construction began in Sept 2001 with estimated cost at Rs 13,600 cr; expenditure on the project at Rs 15,454 cr till Jan 2013 Economy & Policy » News » News BS Reporter | Chennai March 21, 2013 The delay in commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear… Continue Reading →