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#India- Why the Food Security Bill is neither populist nor unaffordable

    The official poverty threshold is low. Many people above the threshold are also poor and look just like the people below the threshold. As a result, there is no reliable way in which subsidies can be targeted only… Continue Reading →

Identity crisis on cards as crunch hits #Aadhaar #UID

Vaivasvat Venkat, TNN | Apr 12, 2013, 04.47 AM IST LUDHIANA: Getting an Aadhar card made has become a problem for many residents in the city as most of them are not even aware of the centres where these Aadhar… Continue Reading →

Plea against Aadhaar, Delhi HC asks govt to respond #UID

Apr 10, 2013 New Delhi: Delhi High Court today asked the city government to respond to a plea seeking quashing of its executive orders that made Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) or ‘Aadhaar’ compulsory for availing various public services here…. Continue Reading →

#India- Aadhaar For Birth, Marriage And Death #UID

  By S.G.Vombatkere 25 March, 2013 Extant law makes it mandatory for every citizen to formally register births, marriages and deaths in the family. A birth certificate is proof of age and a death certificate is proof that a person… Continue Reading →

Water privatisation is not for India

NEW DELHI, March 20, 2013, The Hindu Smriti Kak Ramachandran Apex court specifies that air, water, sea and forests cannot be with private sector A social republic like India cannot have water in private ownership and deny the citizens their right… Continue Reading →

#India – Amendments in slum policy of Delhi, will benefit lakhs of slumdwellers #goodnews

  After a long & continued struggle, Delhi Government brought amendments in modified slum policy after getting pressurized from the slum dwellers of Delhi.   Delhi Government has accepted most of the demands of the Sangathan & amended policy has been… Continue Reading →

Delhi govt cover for 29 facing criminal cases #wakeup #WTFnews

ByDhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Mar 14, 2013, Over 4,300 personnel drawn from Delhi Police (2,546), CRPF (686), Rajasthan Armed Constabulary (558), Meghalaya Police (171), ITBP (132), Nagaland Armed Police (98), Sikkim Police (86) and CISF (27) have been deployed to protect 436… Continue Reading →

Old #Aadhaar applicants may have to reapply #UID #WTFnews

      By Ambika Pandit, TNN | Feb 12, 2013, NEW DELHI: Applied for an Aadhaar card before April 1, 2012, but haven’t got it yet? You may have to apply all over again. A lot of data related… Continue Reading →

#India- New guidelines for handling sexual assault cases in hospitals #Vaw #womenrights

GAURAV VIVEK BHATNAGAR A new set of guidelines have been recently issued by the Department of Health and Family Welfare for “rapid response by hospitals in case of medico legal case (MLC) examination of sexual assault victims’’. These instructions have… Continue Reading →

#India-The Official Emergency Continues – The Ordinance on Sexual Assault #Vaw

FEBRUARY 3, 2013 tags: Justice Verma Committee, law reform, nirbhaya, rape law,sexual violence by Lawrence Liang Guest post by PRATIKSHA BAXI, The reform of rape law, which was not a priority for more than two decades, seems more like a 20-20 match now. The spectacle of… Continue Reading →

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