Plastic Aadhaar card distribution begins

Plastic Aadhaar cards will be issued at the e-governance service centres functioning at taluk offices in the district. Voters who want to get the plastic card can visit these centres from 9.45 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. during working days. Collector S. Palanisamy inaugurated the issue of plastic Aadhaar cards to voters at the Taluk Office…

Don’t submit documents of personal nature: HC

Irked after a lawyer attached copies of the personal diary of an 11-year-old in the documents submitted in a custody dispute case, the Delhi High Court has issued directions to protect the privacy of children in custody and matrimonial disputes. The court of Justice S Muralidhar, in its order issued on Thursday, noted that there…

Pay Rs 1 lakh to rape victim: NHRC to govt

The commission also sought a compliance report with a proof of payment within six weeks from the city government. A 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an employee of the city government’s LNJP Hospital on October 2, 2013. According to NHRC, the city government, in response to the commission’s show cause notice, had said “the…

Persecuted either way

The ethnic cleansing of minority Muslim community in the northern west province of  Buddhist  Myanmar is  going on for the last four years. The world is watching it all silently. Beneath the  ‘civilized’ veneer we find the embedded  monster that edits responses to suit nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, race and tribe. Even after the world…

Amnesty India sends submissions to land bill committee

Human rights organisation Amnesty International India has sent a submission to the joint parliamentary committee on land bill, flagging its concerns about lack of consent, social impact assessment and consultation under the amended legislation. In its seven-page submission, the organisation said that, “if passed into law in its current form, the Bill will undermine the…