17/12/2019Comments Off on SR. CITIZEN: Children-in-law will also be responsible for care of the aged; How senior citizens can avail tax break on interest income under Sec 80TTB …
Children-in-law will also be responsible for care of the aged How senior citizens can avail tax break on interest income under Sec 80TTB Babysitting not a duty for grandparents: Judge Tax Benefits for Senior Citizens Govt mulling six-month jail term for those abandoning elderly parents
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Dec 05, 2019 NEW DELHI: The government has decided to expand the definition of care-givers under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, by making not just biological children, but even sons-in-law and daughters-in- law responsible for looking after family members. …
Economictimes.indiatimes.com Dec 07, 2018 Budget 2018 introduced a new section, 80TTB, under the Income Tax Act which allows senior citizens to claim tax break on specified interest income up to Rs 50,000 in a financial year. The Income Tax Act defines a senior citizen as a resident individual aged 60 years or above during the financial year. …
TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com May 22, 2018 MUMBAI: Parents ought to steer away from a presumption that grandparents are meant to be babysitters, a family court has said, adding that grandchildren should not become their burden in old age. “It is the primary duty of the parents and not the grandparents to take care of their infant children. …
Help.myitreturn.com Skorydov Tax Team Updated 6 months ago When one retires, he deserves to live a peaceful life but sometimes the complex Tax laws can be troublesome for Senior Citizens. In order to reduce the hardships, various income tax benefits are now available to senior citizens. This article summarizes certain beneficial provisions of Income tax, applicable to senior citizens. …
TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com May 12, 2018 NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government is planning to increase the jail term for those who abandon or abuse their elderly parents, to six months from the existing three months, according to a senior official. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which is reviewing the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, has also proposed widening the definition of children to include adopted or step children, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, grandchildren and minors represented by their legal guardians, the senior ministry official said. …
Tribuneindia.com January 3, 2018 The UT Administration has ordered the eviction of 99-year-old retired Army officer Lt-Col Piara Singh’s both daughters-in-law from his house in Sector 27-B here. However, the administration refused to remove the tenants from the ex-serviceman’s property and referred him to approach the competent court of law for this purpose. …
TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com May 22, 2015 NEW DELHI: The government is set to launch a healthcare scheme for senior citizens as part of its social security initiative. Sources said the scheme would be funded through unclaimed deposits available with the government for which the law has already been amended as part of the budget exercise. …
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09/12/2019Comments Off on PRIVACY: Net giants can store your non-crucial data abroad; Privacy is a fundamental right, says Supreme Court’s historic ruling …
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Net giants can store your non-crucial data abroad Privacy is a fundamental right, says Supreme Court’s historic ruling Supreme Court verdict on right to privacy may open a Pandora’s Box Right To Privacy Is Not Absolute, Observes Supreme Court Judge: 10 Points 500 million accounts hacked, says Yahoo Your kitchen appliances are watching you, security experts warn More …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Dec 05, 2019 NEW DELHI: Your personal data, such as what you order online, or where you shop online or destinations that you go to, can be freely taken abroad and stored and processed on international servers by internet giants. They do not need to keep a mirror copy of the information in India, as had originally been stipulated in the draft bill that created the architecture of India’s personal data protection law. …
Business-standard.com August 24, 2017 A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Right to Privacy of a citizen is protected by the Constitution and it is a fundamental right. The apex court ruled that this right is part of the right to life and liberty guaranteed by Article 21 and belongs to the freedom guaranteed in the fundamental rights chapter of the Constitution. …
Soon after the Supreme Court’s return from its summer vacation, the Chief Justice of India constituted a bench of nine judges to decide a question that was long pending. The question is whether there is a fundamental right to privacy that is guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. The answer of the nine judge bench, to be delivered by August 27, will shape the Indian republic for decades to come. It will especially impact the relationship between the individual citizen and an overpowering state that asserts, as a matter of law, its right and ability to have a 360 degree, 24×7 view of every inhabitant of its territory. …
Ndtv.com July 20, 2017 NEW DELHI: The right to privacy is not absolute and cannot be catalogued as it includes everything, a Supreme Court judge said on Wednesday. A nine-judge bench is revisiting the question of privacy 55 years after the Supreme Court decided that it is not a basic right for citizens. The decision of the judges is pivotal to petitions that challenge making the Aadhaar scheme mandatory for millions of Indians. …
Business-standard.com September 23, 2016 Yahoo has confirmed that hackers stole information from at least 500 million user accounts in what it describes as a “state-sponsored” attack. In a statement released on Thursday, Yahoo’s Chief Information Security Officer Bob Lord said that the information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014, Fox News reported. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Mar 20, 2016 MUMBAI: Any obscene act in a private place causing no annoyance to others does not constitute offence, ruled the Bombay high court while recently quashing a complaint against 13 men who were arrested from a private party in a flat at Andheri (west). …
Business-standard.com April 4, 2015 Blatant misuse of closed circuit TV (CCTV) cameras installed in retail shops, hotels and public places is a “de facto norm” in India, experts say. For the offence, cases of which are multiplying on a daily basis, one can take legal recourse under section 66E of the Information Technology Act, 2000. So far, however, there has been no reported conviction under the provision. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Mar 26, 2015 TORONTO: Are you sure the password you created for your gmail or Facebook account strong enough? …
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29/11/2019Comments Off on PWD: Can’t hire those who don’t have minimum marks: Railways; Persons with More Than 80% Locomotor Disability Now Eligible for PG Medical Courses …
Can’t hire those who don’t have minimum marks: Railways Persons with More Than 80% Locomotor Disability Now Eligible for PG Medical Courses Disabled accused made to crawl to fifth-floor court
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Nov 27, 2019 NEW DELHI: The railways on Wednesday said it has complied with legal requirements to recruit persons with disabilities (PwDs) and was trying to find ways to employ more of them, but made it clear that those who have not secured qualifying marks in the tests cannot be recruited. …
Some of the other common disabilities covered under the new rule are blindness, low-vision, leprosy cured persons, thalassemia patients and people who are deaf or hard of hearing. News18.com March 20, 2019 New Delhi: The Medical Council of India has informed the Delhi High Court that disabled or ‘divyang’ candidates with more than 80 percent locomotor disability will be eligible for Postgraduate medical courses. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Aug 6, 2015 NEW DELHI: A trial court here was left shocked when a disabled person, an accused in a criminal case, had to crawl on his hands to the fifth-floor courtroom because police did not think of arranging a wheelchair for him. …
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22/11/2019Comments Off on SCIENCE: Three New Books on Human Consciousness to Blow Your Mind; Physicists Have Built The World’s Smallest Engine, And It’s Seriously Tiny …
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Three New Books on Human Consciousness to Blow Your Mind Physicists Have Built The World’s Smallest Engine, And It’s Seriously Tiny The Moon Is Actually Brighter Than The Sun: Here’s Why Galaxy collision might send our solar system hurtling into space This might affect life on Earth as well. Researchers Engineering Spicy Tomatoes Outlandish claims at Indian Science Congress: A 6-point rebuttal by a science activist More.
Can we measure consciousness? Is everything a little bit conscious? Get ready to dive down the rabbit hole. Thewire.in Nov 17, 2019 At the moment, you’re reading these words and, presumably, thinking about what the words and sentences mean. Or perhaps your mind has wandered, and you’re thinking about dinner, or looking forward to bingeing the latest season of The Good Place. But you’re definitely experiencing something. …
Sciencealert.com 23 AUG 2019 Rather than powering your next road trip, the atomic engine could one day be used to lay the foundation for extraordinary, futuristic nanotechnologies. Here’s how it works: the calcium ion holds an electrical charge, which makes it spin. This angular momentum is then used to convert heat from a laser beam into vibrations. …
August 19, 2019 Mashable.com Cosmic rays are the high-energy radiation that comes from outside our solar system produced by things like supernovae and active galactic nuclei (AGN). They are nothing but protons accelerating through the universe, like blasts of waves of exploding stars. When these electrically-charged particles strike matter, say, the lunar surface, they turn into gamma rays. …
January 9, 2019 Gizbot.com Researchers at Durham University have predicted that the Large Magellanic Cloud might hit the Milky Way in the future. But there’s a possibility that the collision could occur much earlier than expected. …
Krishijagaran.com 08 January, 2019 Spices are an important part of our life. They are used in the preparation of many recipes all over the world. Recently researchers at the Federal University of Viçosa in Brazil have found that the capsaicinoids are responsible for the pungent taste. There are at least 23 different types of capsaicinoids that originate from the pith of the chilli pepper. …
The claims made by some speakers at the congress were termed ‘scientifically completely untenable’ by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the PM, Dr K VijayRaghavan. Thenewsminute.com January 08, 2019 Let me begin by saying that the just concluded 106th Indian Science Congress (ISC) at Lovely Professional University, Punjab is an event that progress and promotion of science and research in India really needed. … …
SCIENCE: Kauravas Test Tube Babies; Nanosatellite; Excitons; Dark matter
Thehindu.com Jan 05, 2019 Kauravas were born due to stem cell and test tube technologies and India also possessed knowledge about guided missiles thousands of years ago, claimed Andhra University Vice Chancellor G. Nageshwar Rao at the Indian Science Congress on Friday. …
Eurekalert.org Jan 04, 2019 BEER-SHEVA, Israel…January 4, 2019 – Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new satellite imaging system that could revolutionize the economics and imagery available from space-based cameras and even earth-based telescopes. …
Phys.org January 4, 2019 After developing a method to control exciton flows at room temperature, EPFL scientists have discovered new properties of these quasiparticles that can lead to more energy-efficient electronic devices. They were the first to control exciton flows at room temperature. And now, the team of scientists from EPFL’s Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) has taken their technology one step further. They have found a way to control some of the properties of excitons and change the polarization of the light they generate. This can lead to a new generation of electronic devices with transistors that undergo less energy loss and heat dissipation. …
Dailymail.co.uk Jan 03, 2019 • Researchers have found evidence of an effect known as ‘dark matter heating’ • This occurs when star formation allows dark matter to gain energy and move • Older galaxies display less dark matter heating, as they stopped star formation Scientists have found the first evidence of an elusive effect known as ‘dark matter heating’ in a breakthrough that could provide new clues on the nature of one of the most mysterious substances in the universe. …
Forbes.com Jan 3, 2019 On January 3rd, 2019, Earth reached the point in its orbit where it’s at its closest approach to the Sun: perihelion. Every object orbiting a single mass (like our Sun) makes an ellipse, containing a point of closest approach that’s unique to that particular orbit, known as periapsis. For the past 4.5 billion years, Earth has orbited the Sun in an ellipse, just like all the other planets orbiting their stars in all the other mature solar systems throughout the galaxy and Universe. …
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19/11/2019Comments Off on ROAD TRANSPORT: 95% of drivers will use in-car voice assistants in next three years, study says; Supreme Court issues directions to state governments on road safety measures …
95% of drivers will use in-car voice assistants in next three years, study says Supreme Court issues directions to state governments on road safety measures Mumbai: Soon, new smart driving licences with QR code to help officials identify fakes Vehicle owner as per RTO records liable for accident: Supreme Court Above the speed limit? An SMS will soon let you know Ignorance not bliss: Saviours denied shield More …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com November 14, 2019 CHENNAI: Almost every driver (95%) will be using a voice assistant in the next three years, but automotive companies must improve the experience to meet user expectations, a new research report from the Capgemini Research Institute has found. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Sep 26, 2019 PUNE: The Supreme Court committee on road safety, during various meetings, has issued direction to various state governments for implementation of road safety measures including engineering measures. It wants to give more focus on road safety works including giving it top priority. …
Freepressjournal.in May 8, 2019 In an initiative to get rid of fake driving licences, the Maharashtra Motor Vehicles Department (MMVD) will soon issue new smart driving licences with a quick response (QR) code to help officials to check if the licence is genuine. According to the Hindustan Times, the existing driving licences remain valid and will be updated when you apply for licence renewal. Once the QR code is scanned, an official will be able to view the driver’s name, residential address, birth date, blood group, the validity of the licence and types of vehicles they are authorised to drive. Shekhar Channe, transport commissioner of Maharashtra told the leading daily, “The QR codes can be scanned for a driver’s details using any QR code scanner application [from the play store].”…
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Vehicle owner as per RTO records liable for accident: Supreme Court
Dec 23, 2018 : Dtf.in The vehicle owner as per the RTO records is liable for accident. Hon’ble Supreme Court, in its judgment dated 14.12.2018, has held as under:- “The law is thus well settled and can be summarised:- “Even though in law there would be a transfer of ownership of the vehicle, that, by itself, would not absolve the party, in whose name the vehicle stands in RTO records, from liability to a third person … …… Merely because the vehicle was transferred does not mean that such registered owner stands absolved of his liability to a third person. So long as his name continues in RTO records, he remains liable to a third person.”” See Supreme Court Judgement >>> SC Judgement dated 14.12.2018 – Prakash Chand Daga Vs. Saveta Sharma & Ors.>>>Supreme Court Judgments
Timeofindia.indiatimes.com Dec 15, 2018 NOIDA: The Noida Authority is upgrading a system that will automatically generate text messages to motorists if they cross the speed limit on the Noida expressway. Currently, the system only identifies traffic violators for speeding and challans are sent to them through speed post. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Nov 27, 2018 NEW DELHI: A survey by a non-profit organisation found shocking non-compliance with provisions of the Good Samaritan Law, under which all hospitals and police stations are supposed to display a Good Samaritan charter at their entrance, enumerating the rights of the people who bring or accompany the injured to the hospital. …
Financial Express July 31, 2018 A man in Kerala had to face trouble after he let his four-year-old daughter ride a scooter with his hands completely off the handle. Responding to this real quick, the Motor Driving Department cancelled his driving license for one year. Shibu Francis, who resides in Palluruthy was travelling to Aluva with his wife and two children when the video was posted on social media. Vinod Kumar, Motor Vehicle Inspector, Kochi said that the department has suspended the license of the person for one year and the matter has been directed to the Ernakulam RTO for further proceedings. Moreover, the cops from Edappally police station officers said that they will soon register a case against Shibu. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com July 31, 2018 CHANDIGARH/MEERUT: A Canadian rapper’s floor-scorching track with the catchline, ‘Kiki do you love me’, has cops in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh sending out worried tweets and advisories. The number, which has gathered nearly 82 million views on YouTube, has prompted a potentially dangerous social media dance challenge which requires the performer to shake and shimmy beside a moving car and then jump back into it. …
Getting a commercial driving licence had so far been a necessity for driving a transport vehicle, a process that had people waiting for one year. A commercial driving licence was obtained after the driver received his personal driving licence.
Financial Express Apr 19, 2018 Bringing a taxi, three-wheeler, e-rickshaw or two-wheelers for the purpose of food delivery etc will be a little easier for individuals and merchants with a new government rule. Under the rule, drivers of these vehicles will no longer require a commercial licence and their private licences will be accepted legally for the same. However, the government has also said that it will be mandatory for truck, bus, other heavy commercial vehicle drivers to get commercial driving licences made. The Road Transport Ministry issued an advisory to the state governments to follow that Supreme Court order of July 2017. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Feb 7, 2018 NEW DELHI: If you sold your car and did not bother to change the ownership in registration records, you would be liable for compensation claims arising from accidents involving the vehicle even if another person owned and drove the car, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. This painful legal truth dawned upon one Vijay Kumar, who had sold his car to another person on July 12, 2007. That person further sold the car on September 18, 2008. This third owner then sold the car to one Naveen Kumar, who claimed before the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal that he had sold it to one Meer Singh. …
Firstpost.com Dec 01, 2017 New Delhi: Noting one death every three minutes due to road accidents in India, the Supreme Court on Thursday issued 25 directions for road safety and directed all states and Union territories (UTs) to implement a policy on the issue with all “earnestness and seriousness”. The court also issued time lines for the implementation of its directions, including setting up of State Road Safety Councils, District Road Safety Committees, Lead Agency, creation of Road Safety Fund and putting in place a Road Safety Action Plan, including Permanent Road Safety Cell. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Sep 7, 2017 NEW DELHI: The use of mobile phones while driving claimed 2,138 lives last year while faulty speed-breakers, potholes and under-construction roads accounted for 26 deaths on the roads every day, according to data released by the transport ministry. The maximum deaths due to use of mobile phones while driving were reported from UP, followed by Haryana. Delhi reported two deaths while Maharashtra registered 172 fatalities on this account. This was the first time that the road transport ministry collected such data from each state. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Aug 4, 2016 NEW DELHI: Jumping traffic lights, using cell phone while driving, violating the stop sign and driving against the flow of traffic may soon attract fines of up to Rs 5,000 for the first offence and double that amount for subsequent violations. These provisions are part of proposed amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act, approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday , which broaden the definition of “dangerous driving” to include these offences. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Jun 10, 2016 NEW DELHI: The road transport and highways ministry will install speed guns (equipment to record the speed of as well as film a moving vehicle) on national highways and deploy advanced ambulances with vehicle-cutting equipment on certain stretches for the immediate rescue of accident victims. …
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Timesofindia.indiatimes.com May 11, 2016 MUMBAI: Driving a car at high speeds is by itself not a strong enough ground to book a person for rash and negligent driving, the Bombay high court has ruled. Two years after Mumbai police arrested a city resident, Khizzer Shah, on the charges of negligent and dangerous driving, a division bench of justices Abhay Oka and Prakash Naik used the HC’s special powers to strike down the FIR as an “abuse of the process of law”. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Oct 16, 2015 KOTHPUTLI (RAJASTHAN): Sending a strong message to consultants involved in preparing detailed project reports (DPRs), highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that government can book such agencies for murder, if the fault in design is established as the reason for any road death on national highways (NHs).. …
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Anti-lock braking system must for all two-wheelers Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Sep 20, 2015 NEW DELHI: All models of two-wheelers need to be fitted with anti-lock braking system (ABS) and combined braking system (CBS) by April 2018.. …
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06/11/2019Comments Off on MARRIAGE: 7 questions to ask your fiancé before D-Day; ‘Idiots, lunatics’ can’t register their marriages …
7 questions to ask your fiancé before D-Day ‘Idiots, lunatics’ can’t register their marriages Sex on false promise of marriage is rape: Supreme Court Bride Tested For Pregnancy And Virginity Tests Without Her Knowledge, Takes Groom To Court Dowry Cases: SC Modifies Order, Restores Police Power to Arrest Accused Panels of wives, retirees, volunteers will not evaluate dowry complaint filed by a married woman under 498-A: SC More …
Femina.in October 15, 2019 Marriages are made in heaven. But the hard work for sustaining marriages is done right here on this planet. Anyone who has had a successful marriage will tell you that there is a lot of work required to make it last. So, while you are in love and are excited to plan the wedding and your future with your one true love, you might want to sit down with your fiancé and ask him a few questions. Questions that will help you understand each other better and possibly avoid a few hurdles down the path. And it’s always nice to know your partner, isn’t it? …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Sep 19, 2019 BENGALURU: Want to tie the knot in a secular fashion? You have got to declare that you are neither an ‘idiot’ nor ‘lunatic’ to get your marriage registered. A clause in Form III to register marriages under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, meant for those seeking to wed beyond the ambit of personal laws and sectarian divides like caste and faith, asks applicants to declare that “neither of us, is an idiot or lunatic”. …
Thehindu.com April 13, 2019 The fact that the victim and her rapist have married other people and gone their separate ways will not erase the crime. The rapist would still have to answer for his crime, a Bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and M.R. Shah concluded in their recent judgment. …
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ThelogicalIndian.com March 30th, 2019 In a shocking incident, an unwell bride who threw up just before her marriage, was taken to a hospital to test her virginity and pregnancy by her spouse allegedly without her consent, reported Times Of India. The woman has filed police complaint and moved to court against her husband for harassing her and suspecting her fidelity. …
Theindianawaaz.com 15/09/2018 The Supreme Court on Friday restored the police power to act on complaints of dowry harassment under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The court, however, upheld the right of the husband or in-laws to seek bail — whether regular or anticipatory. It also asked the police to not arrest anybody on a whim. …..
Thehindu.com September 14, 2018 The apex court, while modifying the verdict given by a two-judge Bench last year, restores to the police their power to immediately register an FIR and act on a dowry harassment complaint filed by a married woman. The Supreme Court on Friday modified its July 2017 order, which roped in retirees, wives of “working officers” and social workers to sift genuine complaints of dowry harassment from the frivolous ones. …..
Second Marriage: Judgments regarding validity of second marriage and right of the children from the second marriage to joint property
Dnaindia.com Aug 26, 2018 The Supreme Court has clarified that the second marriage would not be void if solemnized during the pendency of the divorce appeal. The “incapacity to marriage” as mentioned under the Hindu Marriage Act would not lead to nullity of second marriage, reported Deccan Herald citing SC verdict. …
Dnaindia.com Jul 31, 2018 The Bombay High Court on Monday, came to the aid of two daughters, who along with their mother were thrown out of their house by the father. He even tried to pass on their share of the ancestral joint family property to his two sons born out of a void marriage (second marriage). The court granted them equal rights in the ancestral property. …
India.com July 17, 2018 New Delhi, Jul 17: Hearing pleas seeking to make marital rape an offence and others opposing it, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday observed that marriage does not mean that a woman is always consenting for physical relations with her husband. The court also observed that physical force is not necessary for constituting the offence of rape. The court has fixed next date of hearing on August 8. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com May 8, 2018 NEW DELHI: Giving primacy to free will, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed an influential Karnataka politician’s daughter to break free from matrimonial and parental ties and live her life the way she chose to. The 26-year-old woman had fled home complaining that she was forced to get married against her wish. …
Shakuntala with friends writing a letter to Dushyanta [Raja Ravi Varma [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons] [Representational Image]
Photogallery.indiatimes.com Apr 2, 2018 Marriages in Different Cultures and Religions Sweden: Marriages in Sweden have a unique tradition. According to the traditions, if the bride or groom leaves their table to use the bathroom, the other gets kissed. …
Deccanchronicle.com Feb 5, 2018 New Delhi: As ‘honour’ killings continue to rock North India, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra warned khap panchayats on Monday “not to be conscience keepers” and said nobody should interfere if two adults want to get married. The CJI was hearing a plea to ban family killings over ‘honour’, filed by NGO (non-government organisation) Shakti Vahini. …
Indianxpress.com December 6, 2017 Removing the income ceiling of Rs 5 lakh per annum, the Centre has opened its scheme meant to encourage inter-caste marriages to all couples where either the bride or the bridegroom is a Dalit. The ‘Dr Ambedkar scheme for social Integration through inter caste marriage’ was started in 2013, with a target to provide monetary incentive to at least 500 such inter-caste couples per year. As per rules, such couples whose total annual income does not exceed Rs 5 lakh are eligible to get a one-time incentive of Rs 2.5 lakh from the Centre. …
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Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Dec 8, 2017 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court disagreed on Thursday with the Bombay high court’s ruling that a woman’s religion merges with her husband’s faith after marriage and requested the Valsad Zoroastrian Trust to reconsider its decision to bar a Parsi woman from entering the Tower of Silence to perform the l last rites of her parents only because she married outside the community. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Oct 22, 2017 Mumbai: The Bombay high court has held that a woman gets the right to live in her matrimonial home or a shared household irrespective of whether it belongs to or is owned by her husband. It relied on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act to direct a man not to dispossess his wife until the Family Court decides on his plea— to declare their marriage a nullity as she was not divorced from the first husband or to grant him a divorce. The husband claimed she had barged into his father’s Mulund home. …
Ndtv.com October 13, 2017 New Delhi: The Supreme Court judgement criminalising sexual intercourse by a man with his minor wife can attract a jail term of 10 years under the India Penal Code or even a life term under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The top court’s landmark decision to amend Exception 2 of Section 375 (definition of rape) of the IPC, which had earlier exempted husbands from being tried for rape for having sexual relations with wives of 15 to 18 years of age, would now make such males liable for prosecution and stringent punishment. …
Indianxpress.com “Under Hindu Law, marriage is a ‘sacrament’ (solemn pledge) and not a contract which can be entered into by execution of a marriage deed”, the court said. January 29, 2017 Marriage under the Hindu law is “sacrament” and “not a contract” which can be entered into by executing a deed, Delhi High Court has observed while dismissing a plea by a woman who had challenged an order refusing to declare her as the legally-wedded wife. The woman had approached the court seeking her appointment for job on compassionate ground after the death of her alleged husband, a former sanitation staff in a city government hospital, and a direction to the medical superintendent to release consequential benefits and allow her to join duties. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Nov 23, 2016 NEW DELHI: A man was acquitted of rape charges after the court found that the woman complainant hid her marital status from her parents because the groom belonged to a lower caste. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain also noted several inconsistencies in the testimony of the woman who married the accused in a temple as per “Gandharva vivah” rituals, but later claimed she was forced into a physical relationship and the man’s parents had demanded money. ..
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Sep 9, 2016 Jaanki is physically and psychologically distraught. She was raped by her husband, not once but several times. She confides in her mother. To her utter shock, her mother confesses that she has been subjected to a similar fate in her married life. In disbelief, Jaanki snaps, …
Hindustantimes.com Mar 06, 2016 In the absence of evidence like wedding invitation and photographs, the cohabitation of a man and woman for a long time could be taken as a valid proof of marriage, the Madras high court ruled. …
Shakuntala with friends writing a letter to Dushyanta [Raja Ravi Varma [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Feb 22, 2016 NEW DELHI: A single letter can constitute an act of cruelty, the Delhi high court has said, granting divorce to a man living separately from his estranged wife for the past 28 years. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Jul 7, 2015 NEW DELHI: An unwed mother must be recognized as the legal guardian of her child and she cannot be forced to name the father, nor does she need his consent, while deciding guardianship rights, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a path breaking verdict on gender equality. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Apr 29, 2015 AHMEDABAD: An insurance agent studied law to fight rape charges levelled by his wife. Acquitted by courts, practising advocate Pankaj Chavda, 37, has now slapped a Rs 50 lakh defamation suit against his wife for implicating him and a friend in a false rape case. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Apr 11, 2015 MUMBAI: A matrimonial website cannot be held responsible if a user is “careless and negligent” and falls for one of the common “internet scams”, Bombay high court has ruled. …
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Government plans 1,400km long great ‘green wall’ of India Govt officials to be prosecuted and may be sent to jail for not acting against polluters:SC Madras HC bans photos of living persons on banners, hoardings in Tamil Nadu Supreme Court refuses to modify October 9 order on cracker sales in Delhi-NCR Rs 5,000 fine for possessing plastic bags in Delhi More …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com October 09, 2019 NEW DELHI: The Centre is mulling an ambitious plan to create a 1,400km long and 5km wide green belt from Gujarat to the Delhi-Haryana border, on the lines of the “Great Green Wall” running through the width of Africa, from Dakar (Senegal) to Djibouti, to combat climate change and desertification. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Nov 26, 2018 NEW DELHI: It will not only be polluters who will be sent to ail or have to pay the fine but the government agencies and officials will have have to face the same consequences if they failed to take action against the polluters with the Supreme Court on Monday allowed their prosecution. …
Hindustantimes.com Oct 25, 2017 The Madras high court on Tuesday banned the use of pictures of living persons on banners and hoardings in Tamil Nadu, where towering cut-outs of politicians and actors are almost a part of the local culture. The court asked Tamil Nadu’s top official to maintain a clean environment and also ensure that there were “no unnecessary drawings” on buildings and residential places in all wards of the southern state. …
Thehindu.com October 13, 2017 “Who said we have banned the bursting of crackers. The existing stockpile of crackers is enough,” Justice Sikri said. The Supreme Court on Friday refused to modify its October 9 order suspending the sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR till November 1. The court said it knew that “some people are trying to give a communal tinge to our order… but we will consider that as people expressing their anguish at our order”. …
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Aug 10, 2017 NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today imposed an interim ban on use of non-biodegradable plastic bags which are less than 50 microns in the entire national capital. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also announced an environment compensation of Rs 5,000 on anyone found in possession of such banned plastic. …
Newsnation.in National Green Tribunal asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to issue circular to all ground handling services and airlines to ensure that they do not release waste from human waste tanks while landing or anywhere near the terminals of the IGI Airport. December 20, 2016 Tired of human waste being emptied mid-air by airlines while landing, the National Green Tribunal has decided to penalise airlines whose aircraft empty toilet tanks in air. The NGT directed aviation regulator DGCA to issue a circular to all airlines, whose planes are involved, to pay Rs 50,000 as environmental compensation. …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday has banned the sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR in an attempt to keep the rising pollution level of the capital and its surrounding areas under check. However, there is no restriction on bursting crackers as it would be difficult to implement and monitor, the apex court has said. …
Menace of Plastic Wastes and Hazardous Chemicals
August 8, 2016, New Delhi. The Central Pollution Control Board has estimated that 5.6 million tonnes of plastic waste per annum is generated in the country. A total of 684 hazardous chemicals is listed under Schedule of the Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989 under the Environment Protection Act, 1986. The Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules, 2016 entrust the Central Pollution Control Board to establish certification process for the manufacturers or seller of compostable plastic carry bags and frame guidelines for disposal of Thermo set plastic waste. The Local Bodies in the State Government are responsible for development and setting up of infrastructure for segregation, collection, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of the plastic waste either on its own or by engaging agencies or producers. The roles of various agencies of Central and State Governments on manufacture, storage and import of Hazardous Chemicals have been prescribed under the Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989. The Ministry has comprehensively revised the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 and notified Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules in March, 2016. The PWM Rules, 2016 provide following ways and means to minimize plastic waste generation, resource recovery, recycle and reuse: (i) Prohibition on the manufacture, sale and use of plastic carry bags /sheets less than 50 micron in thickness, (ii) Phasing out of non- recyclable multilayered plastic, (iii) The collect back system of waste generated from various products by the Producers / Brand owners of those products to improve the collection of plastic waste, its reuse/ recycle. (iv) Responsibility on plastic waste generators including institutional generators and every person organising an event in open space, which involves service of food stuff in plastic or multilayered packaging, to segregate the waste generated by them and handover segregated wastes to authorized waste processing or disposal facilities. (v) Registration of shopkeepers and street vendors willing to provide plastic carry bags for dispensing any commodity on payment of plastic waste management fee. (vi) Scope for utilization of plastic waste in road construction, energy & oil generation to enhance the recycling of plastic waste. (vii) Levy of user fee and spot fines for littering, violation by retailers/ street vendors and generators, etc.
Hazardous Chemical (Representative Image)
Government has notified two rules viz. Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989 and Chemical Accidents (Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Response) Rules, 1996 for ensuring chemical safety in the Country. These Rules delineate the criteria for identification of Major Accident Hazard (MAH) unit, As per these Rules, an off- site emergency plan for a district having MAH unit is required to be in place so as to mitigate the impact of chemical accidents. As per the information received from various Sate and Union Territories, there are 1,861 MAH units in the Country, located in 303 districts. This information was given by Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Anil Madhav Dave, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. (Source: pib website)
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Sep 21, 2015 NEW DELHI: Ahead of the festive season, Delhi government has decided to strictly impose a fine of Rs 5,000 on those spotted polluting the Yamuna by throwing waste or puja offerings in it. …
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Transparency.org 9 December, 2015 Transparency International today opened the voting phase of its Unmask the Corrupt campaign to highlight the most symbolic cases of grand corruption. Grand corruption is the abuse of high-level power that benefits the few at the expense of the many, and causes serious and widespread harm to individuals and society. It often goes unpunished. It concerns millions of victims around the world. …
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