Cpm: No to Trinamool ‘politics of terror’
New Delhi: Accusing ruling Trinamool Congress of unleashing violence against the left during the West Bengal Panchayat polls, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday said such “politics of terror” undermines democratic structures and is “simply unacceptable”. Addressing members of CPI(M)’s Delhi Sate committee, Yechury claimed that during these Panchayat elections, 24 CPI(M) cadres were murdered and 100 others were seriously injured.
Panel seeks help in fake NRI marriages
New Delhi: A Parliamentary panel on Wednesday expressed serious concern over rising cases of fraudulent marriages involving NRIs and asked the Government to set up an effective mechanism to provide assistance to affected women. In a report tabled in lok Sabha, the Standing Committee on External Affairs recommended to the Government to work seriously on its earlier suggestion of having bilateral agreements with foreign countries to protect interests of women who are victims of such marriages.
30 volunteer guides in ‘yuva saathi’
New Delhi: Union Minister of Culture, Chandresh Kumari Katoch on Wednesday launched ‘Yuva Saathi’, the young visitor programme envisaging the deployment of volunteer guides to provide guided tours to school children visiting the National Museum in New Delhi. Thirty young volunteers have successfully completed the training programme and will be deployed as volunteer guides, said a statement from the Ministry.
‘lack of basic policing led to naxal attacks’
New Delhi: The Government on Wednesday admitted that the recent attacks carried out by Naxals could be successful due to security forces’ failure to adhere to basic policing tactics. “An analysis of recent Naxal attacks disclose that the attacks could succeed mainly due to failure of adherence to basic policing tactics and practices by some of the State police forces,” MoS for Home RPN Singh told Rajya Sabha.
bill powers EC on SC/ST representation
New Delhi: law Minister Kapil Sibal introduced the Readjustment of Representation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies (second) Bill, 2013 amid the House over the issue of Pakistani firing on Indian soldiers and anti-Telangana protests. The Bill aims at giving limited special powers to Election Commission to determine change in nomenclature of a Parliamentary or Assembly seat where a caste has been included or excluded from the SC/ST list in the last one decade.
e-portal for court case status info
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam inaugurated an e-portal for the convenience of litigants who can access information on movement of their case across all courts in the country. The National Judicial Data Grid as it will be called will contain data of courts beginning from district level, on a website - ecourts.gov.in. law Minister Kapil Sibal praised the project and envied the judges who work hard to dispose cases unlike politicians who despite the hard work cannot expect that their bills will be passed.