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Such a huge improvement this. 30 to 33.
I'm sure this will solve everything.
With Over 58,000 Cases Pending In SC, Modi Cabinet Approves Bill Increasing Strength Of SC Judges From 30 To 33
I'm sure this will solve everything.
With Over 58,000 Cases Pending In SC, Modi Cabinet Approves Bill Increasing Strength Of SC Judges From 30 To 33
India Today (@IndiaToday) Tweeted:
The Bill was approved by the Union Cabinet Wednesday.
NMC Bill likely to be introduced in Lok Sabha tomorrow ( )
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Scores of doctors boycotted work, held marches and raised slogans against the bill, alleging it was "anti-poor, anti-student and undemocratic" Resident doctors boycott work, hold marches, raise slogans against NMC Bill ( )
The Bill was approved by the Union Cabinet Wednesday.
NMC Bill likely to be introduced in Lok Sabha tomorrow ( )
EconomicTimes (@EconomicTimes) Tweeted:
Scores of doctors boycotted work, held marches and raised slogans against the bill, alleging it was "anti-poor, anti-student and undemocratic" Resident doctors boycott work, hold marches, raise slogans against NMC Bill ( )
@vstol Jockey this might be up for next Monday.
Triple Talaq, Article 370. Uniform Civil Code next?
By Akhilesh Singh | TNN | Aug 6, 2019, 02:35 IST
HIGHLIGHTS :
NEW DELHI : BJP’s political agenda of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, scrapping Article 370 and adopting a Uniform Civil Code(UCC) has for several decades seemed like a statement of intent that did not have much chance of being translated into reality.
Not so now. The reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir is set to sail through Parliament with Rajya Sabha having passed it on Monday.
The success came less than a week after the contentious bill to ban instant triple talaq and make it punishable breached the numerical and ideological barrier in RS. Suddenly the possibility of a UCC — though by no means an easy task — does not appear as unachievable. Almost certainly, more aspects of personal laws are likely to be taken up for scrutiny, marking incremental progress towards UCC.
The Ayodhya issue is now in its final leg, with the Supreme Court beginning day-to-day hearings on the title suit from Tuesday. Despite its sensitive religious and political overtones, the issue may well be heading for a finale.
Passage of the resolution to ratify the presidential order that makes Article 370 a dead letter gives BJP strong traction in a growing constituency which is drawn to its nationalist and Hindutva agenda. It is a big success that helps validates BJP’s political vision that it has presented as an alternative to Nehruvian secularism.
The Modi government anticipates that the path ahead in J&K will be very challenging, but is convinced that the political logjam in the state needs radical measures that will serve to attack the “separateness” that Article 35A and Article 370 have bred.
Home minister Amit Shah was instrumental in winning over several parties. Many felt the ground had shifted and the public pulse was definitely in favour of abrogating Article 370. Party sources said Shah began his preparations more than a month back as he reached out to party leaders and convinced them about supporting pending legislation. Parties like BJD, TRS, YSRCP and TDP all voted in favour of the J&K Reorganisation Bill that saw BJP succeed in pushing through legislation that seemed a bridge too far not long ago.
(read the whole thread)
“The government’s decision in relation to Article 370 is a monumental decision towards national integration. What was a temporary and transient provision cannot be treated as permanent. It had to go,” senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley tweeted.
Triple Talaq, Article 370. Uniform Civil Code next? | India News - Times of India
Triple Talaq, Article 370. Uniform Civil Code next?
By Akhilesh Singh | TNN | Aug 6, 2019, 02:35 IST
HIGHLIGHTS :
- The reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir is set to sail through Parliament with Rajya Sabha having passed it on Monday
- The success came less than a week after the contentious bill to ban instant triple talaq and make it punishable breached the numerical and ideological barrier in the Upper House
NEW DELHI : BJP’s political agenda of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, scrapping Article 370 and adopting a Uniform Civil Code(UCC) has for several decades seemed like a statement of intent that did not have much chance of being translated into reality.
Not so now. The reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir is set to sail through Parliament with Rajya Sabha having passed it on Monday.
The success came less than a week after the contentious bill to ban instant triple talaq and make it punishable breached the numerical and ideological barrier in RS. Suddenly the possibility of a UCC — though by no means an easy task — does not appear as unachievable. Almost certainly, more aspects of personal laws are likely to be taken up for scrutiny, marking incremental progress towards UCC.
The Ayodhya issue is now in its final leg, with the Supreme Court beginning day-to-day hearings on the title suit from Tuesday. Despite its sensitive religious and political overtones, the issue may well be heading for a finale.
Passage of the resolution to ratify the presidential order that makes Article 370 a dead letter gives BJP strong traction in a growing constituency which is drawn to its nationalist and Hindutva agenda. It is a big success that helps validates BJP’s political vision that it has presented as an alternative to Nehruvian secularism.
The Modi government anticipates that the path ahead in J&K will be very challenging, but is convinced that the political logjam in the state needs radical measures that will serve to attack the “separateness” that Article 35A and Article 370 have bred.
Home minister Amit Shah was instrumental in winning over several parties. Many felt the ground had shifted and the public pulse was definitely in favour of abrogating Article 370. Party sources said Shah began his preparations more than a month back as he reached out to party leaders and convinced them about supporting pending legislation. Parties like BJD, TRS, YSRCP and TDP all voted in favour of the J&K Reorganisation Bill that saw BJP succeed in pushing through legislation that seemed a bridge too far not long ago.
(read the whole thread)
“The government’s decision in relation to Article 370 is a monumental decision towards national integration. What was a temporary and transient provision cannot be treated as permanent. It had to go,” senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley tweeted.
Triple Talaq, Article 370. Uniform Civil Code next? | India News - Times of India
In a complete subversion of basic rights, NDTV founders Radhika and Prannoy Roy were today prevented from leaving the country. Both journalists had tickets to return to India on the 16th, just a week later. They have been stopped from traveling abroad on the basis of a fake and wholly unsubstantiated corruption case initiated by the CBI that was filed two years ago and in which Radhika and Prannoy Roy have been fully cooperating. Today's action is, along with events like raids on media owners, a warning to the media to fall in line - or else.
Complete Subversion Of Media Freedom In Action Against NDTV Founders
Complete Subversion Of Media Freedom In Action Against NDTV Founders
Modi government looks to crack down on drug smuggling
According to home ministry officials, a joint coordination committee, formed only last month under NCB director general Rakesh Asthana, met on Wednesday for the first time to discuss ways to curb the drug trade. According to estimates, India is abusing 36 tons of heroin each year.
Updated: Aug 08, 2019 07:41 IST
By Shishir Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
The Narendra Modi government has decided to cut the roots of terror funding by concertedly targeting drug smuggling(PTI)
The Narendra Modi government has decided to cut the roots of terror funding by concertedly targeting drug smuggling in which, according to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Delhi and Punjab have emerged as the principal fulcrums as hubs of both distribution and consumption of opium-based drugs.
According to home ministry officials, a joint coordination committee, formed only last month under NCB director general Rakesh Asthana, met on Wednesday for the first time to discuss ways to curb the drug trade. According to estimates, India is abusing 36 tons of heroin each year.
The market value of 1 kg of heroin is Rs 1 crore, putting the value of heroin consumed in the country at Rs 36,000 crore (1 ton is equivalent to 1,000 kg).
“The drug survey conducted in February 2019 showed 20 lakh abusers of heroin, who conservatively are consuming 0.5 gram of drug. This means the total consumption is 360 tons but given the fact that drug is diluted by one-tenth, the conservative figure of drug consumption is 36 tons, but the total seizure was only 1.5 tons,” said a home ministry official.
With drugs being smuggled from both Afghanistan and Myanmar, the heroin seizures in India have touched a new high with 532 kilograms recovered from the Attari-Wagah integrated check post in June.
The biggest seizure by NCB is the 1,500 kgs it found on a boat in Gujarat’s Kandla port in May 2017.
Given that the Modi government is worried not only about the terror funding but also the social impact of drugs, the NCB is being restructured and two additional inspector general posts are being created for better enforcement.
The NCB intelligence as well as operations units are being upgraded.
According to senior officials, a record 328,000 hectares in Afghanistan was cultivated for opium poppy in 2017 with the help of the Taliban; the figure went down to 263,000 in 2018 with the heroin being smuggled through three major routes.
“The three routes are Central Asia to Russia, Balkan route via Iran and third to India via Pakistan. The number of shipments via the India route have jumped from 10 to 25% with strong enforcement action on other routes. Poppy cultivation in Myanmar is in 40,000 hectares of land in Shan state and the drug is coming towards Delhi and Punjab through the porous borders in Mizoram and Manipur,” said an NCB official.
Illegal poppy cultivation is underway in the north-eastern states and Jharkhand.
The joint coordination committee has decided that the important players in the drug trade in India should be identified. The bilateral talks between India’s home minister, Amit Shah, and his Bangladeshi counterpart, Asaduzzaman Khan, on Wednesday also discussed the possibility of intelligence sharing between countries as well as joint action by New Delhi, Dhaka and Naypidaw within their own borders.
The biggest worry of the Modi government is that a large quantity of smuggled drugs is being consumed within India as alkaloids being brought into the country are being seized, but what is being seized going outside the country are precursor chemicals used in the illegal manufacture of narcotics.
Some 2.1% of Indians, on the basis of the drug abuse report, are consuming opium and its derivatives with drugs like cocaine confined to Delhi and Mumbai.
According to North Block, the Taliban and its ideological brethren, the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), are running their jihadi machine on huge stashes of drug money. The drug money is not only used to recruit people in India and Afghanistan into militant ranks, but also radicalize them.
Modi government looks to crack down on drug smuggling
According to home ministry officials, a joint coordination committee, formed only last month under NCB director general Rakesh Asthana, met on Wednesday for the first time to discuss ways to curb the drug trade. According to estimates, India is abusing 36 tons of heroin each year.
Updated: Aug 08, 2019 07:41 IST
By Shishir Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
The Narendra Modi government has decided to cut the roots of terror funding by concertedly targeting drug smuggling(PTI)
The Narendra Modi government has decided to cut the roots of terror funding by concertedly targeting drug smuggling in which, according to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Delhi and Punjab have emerged as the principal fulcrums as hubs of both distribution and consumption of opium-based drugs.
According to home ministry officials, a joint coordination committee, formed only last month under NCB director general Rakesh Asthana, met on Wednesday for the first time to discuss ways to curb the drug trade. According to estimates, India is abusing 36 tons of heroin each year.
The market value of 1 kg of heroin is Rs 1 crore, putting the value of heroin consumed in the country at Rs 36,000 crore (1 ton is equivalent to 1,000 kg).
“The drug survey conducted in February 2019 showed 20 lakh abusers of heroin, who conservatively are consuming 0.5 gram of drug. This means the total consumption is 360 tons but given the fact that drug is diluted by one-tenth, the conservative figure of drug consumption is 36 tons, but the total seizure was only 1.5 tons,” said a home ministry official.
With drugs being smuggled from both Afghanistan and Myanmar, the heroin seizures in India have touched a new high with 532 kilograms recovered from the Attari-Wagah integrated check post in June.
The biggest seizure by NCB is the 1,500 kgs it found on a boat in Gujarat’s Kandla port in May 2017.
Given that the Modi government is worried not only about the terror funding but also the social impact of drugs, the NCB is being restructured and two additional inspector general posts are being created for better enforcement.
The NCB intelligence as well as operations units are being upgraded.
According to senior officials, a record 328,000 hectares in Afghanistan was cultivated for opium poppy in 2017 with the help of the Taliban; the figure went down to 263,000 in 2018 with the heroin being smuggled through three major routes.
“The three routes are Central Asia to Russia, Balkan route via Iran and third to India via Pakistan. The number of shipments via the India route have jumped from 10 to 25% with strong enforcement action on other routes. Poppy cultivation in Myanmar is in 40,000 hectares of land in Shan state and the drug is coming towards Delhi and Punjab through the porous borders in Mizoram and Manipur,” said an NCB official.
Illegal poppy cultivation is underway in the north-eastern states and Jharkhand.
The joint coordination committee has decided that the important players in the drug trade in India should be identified. The bilateral talks between India’s home minister, Amit Shah, and his Bangladeshi counterpart, Asaduzzaman Khan, on Wednesday also discussed the possibility of intelligence sharing between countries as well as joint action by New Delhi, Dhaka and Naypidaw within their own borders.
The biggest worry of the Modi government is that a large quantity of smuggled drugs is being consumed within India as alkaloids being brought into the country are being seized, but what is being seized going outside the country are precursor chemicals used in the illegal manufacture of narcotics.
Some 2.1% of Indians, on the basis of the drug abuse report, are consuming opium and its derivatives with drugs like cocaine confined to Delhi and Mumbai.
According to North Block, the Taliban and its ideological brethren, the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), are running their jihadi machine on huge stashes of drug money. The drug money is not only used to recruit people in India and Afghanistan into militant ranks, but also radicalize them.
Modi government looks to crack down on drug smuggling
Modi government likely to bring bill to prevent religious conversion in next Parliament session
Sources said that the government has already started preparations for the same and discussion are underway to bring the bill that would prevent any kind of religious conversion.
Written By: Santosh Kumar
Edited By: Shobhit Sujay
Updated : Aug 10, 2019, 10:09 AM IST
File Photo : PM Narendra Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre is likely to bring a bill to prevent conversion of religion. Sources have told Zee News that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government may bring the anti-conversion bill in the next session of Parliament.
The sources said that the government has already started preparations for the same and discussion are underway to bring the bill that might prevent any kind of religious conversion.
This comes shortly after the conclusion of the Budget Session of Parliament wherein the government passed key bills like Jammu and Kashmir Re-organisation Bill, which bifurcates the state into two Union Territories – Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, and Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, which criminalises triple talaq.
Both the bills were passed in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha amid uproar by opposition. While the opposition questioned the manner in which Article 370 was abrogated, it opposed the clause of sending husband to jail in cases of triple talaq.
As the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die, Speaker Om Birla and RS Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said that the recent session was one of the best in the history of Parliament.
Terming it as a “golden session for Lok Sabha”, Om Birla had pointed that as many as 35 bills were passed. According to Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, “99% government business” was completed during the previous session of Parliament.
The highlights of the Budget session of Parliament were oath taking by elected representatives, election of Om Birla as Lok Sabha Speaker, Motion of Thanks on the President Ram Nath Kovind’s joint address, financial business relating to Union Budget for 2019-20.
The session also witnessed India's first full time woman Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, present her maiden Budget on the floor of the House. The session was slated to end on July 26.
Apart from Jammu and Kashmir Re-organisation and triple talaq bills, Parliament also passed the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill 2019, which aims at strengthening the central anti-terror agency and empowering its officials.
Modi government likely to bring bill to prevent religious conversion in next Parliament session
Sources said that the government has already started preparations for the same and discussion are underway to bring the bill that would prevent any kind of religious conversion.
Written By: Santosh Kumar
Edited By: Shobhit Sujay
Updated : Aug 10, 2019, 10:09 AM IST
File Photo : PM Narendra Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre is likely to bring a bill to prevent conversion of religion. Sources have told Zee News that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government may bring the anti-conversion bill in the next session of Parliament.
The sources said that the government has already started preparations for the same and discussion are underway to bring the bill that might prevent any kind of religious conversion.
This comes shortly after the conclusion of the Budget Session of Parliament wherein the government passed key bills like Jammu and Kashmir Re-organisation Bill, which bifurcates the state into two Union Territories – Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, and Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, which criminalises triple talaq.
Both the bills were passed in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha amid uproar by opposition. While the opposition questioned the manner in which Article 370 was abrogated, it opposed the clause of sending husband to jail in cases of triple talaq.
As the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die, Speaker Om Birla and RS Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said that the recent session was one of the best in the history of Parliament.
Terming it as a “golden session for Lok Sabha”, Om Birla had pointed that as many as 35 bills were passed. According to Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, “99% government business” was completed during the previous session of Parliament.
The highlights of the Budget session of Parliament were oath taking by elected representatives, election of Om Birla as Lok Sabha Speaker, Motion of Thanks on the President Ram Nath Kovind’s joint address, financial business relating to Union Budget for 2019-20.
The session also witnessed India's first full time woman Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, present her maiden Budget on the floor of the House. The session was slated to end on July 26.
Apart from Jammu and Kashmir Re-organisation and triple talaq bills, Parliament also passed the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill 2019, which aims at strengthening the central anti-terror agency and empowering its officials.
Modi government likely to bring bill to prevent religious conversion in next Parliament session
Such things don't usually leak out before happening under Modi-Shah, but if this is true, then I'm through the roof; and a thousand salutations to Modi. Fantastic Move.
