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Employing manual scavengers made an offence

Employing or engaging a person has become an offence now as Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 comes into force across India except...

December 8, 2013

Bill for creation of Telangana gets assent of Union Cabinet

The Union Cabinet has approved for the creation of Telangana with 10 districts and sketched the draft for carving out the India’s 29th state from the current Andhra...

December 7, 2013

Karnataka Assembly passes rigorous ESMA Bill

The Legislative Assembly of Karnataka passed a stringent Essential Services Maintenance Bill (ESMA), 2013 which will render striking work a non-bailable offence and empowers the police to arrest...

December 5, 2013

Article 371(D) of the Constitution needs to be amended for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh: Law Ministry

The Union Law Ministry informed the Group of Ministers (GoM) that the Article 371 (D) of the Constitution of India needed to be amended for facilitating bifurcation of...

November 16, 2013

Government reconstitutes Medical Council of India with 68 new members

Giving effect to the Indian Medical Council(Amendment) Second Ordinance, 2013, the  Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reconstituted the Medical Council of India (MCI) with 68 new members....

November 7, 2013

'State Govts can’t order suspension of films': Justice Mukul Mudgal on draft Cinematograph Bill 2013

The Empowered Committee on film certification chaired by Justice Mukul Mudgal has mandated that no State government can order the suspension of a film. As per the draft...

October 24, 2013

President’s assent to Uttarakhand Lokayukta Act, 2011

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the Uttarakhand Lokayukta Bill. With this the Uttarakhand Lokayukta Bill became an Act. The Lokayukta Act is aimed...

October 21, 2013

Mudgal committee proposes new Cinematograph Bill on governing cinema

An empowered panel headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana has proposed a model Cinematograph Bill to replace the...

October 11, 2013

Double food subsidy, grains to Bihar: Jairam Ramesh

According to Union Minister for Rural Development, Bihar would get double foodgrain allocation and food subsidy following the implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA). It would make Bihar the biggest beneficiary...

October 11, 2013

Land Acquisition Bill gets President’s assent

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013 which seeks to replace the archaic land acquisition law dating back to 1894...

October 3, 2013

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