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Bring
Railway land under the scope of Vendors Bill
There is some good
news for street vendors who were unhappy with certain provisions of the Street
Vendors
(Protection of
Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2012. The Parliamentary
Standing
Committee on Urban
Development, to which the Bill was sent after it was presented in Lok Sabha has
recommended that
Railway land be brought under the scope of the Bill. Vendors operating on
Railway land
were earlier kept
out of its purview. The panel, in its report presented on March 13, sought to
empower the
Town Vending
Committee (TVC) in determining vending zones, natural markets and street
vending zones.
The Sharad
Yadav-headed Standing Committee has also provided relief to vendors on the
issue of their
eviction and
relocation. The Bill had a provision for their eviction after seven days of
notice period. It
recommended the
period to be increased to 30 days and eviction to be done after consultation
with the TVC.
Money
demand unrelated to marriage won’t attract dowry offence
The act of a man
seeking money from his father-in-law to set up a business six months after
marriage will not
come within the
ambit of ‘dowry’, the Supreme Court has held. According to the SC to attract
the offence of
dowry, “any
property or valuable security should be given or agreed to be given either
directly or indirectly at
or before or
anytime after marriage and in connection with the marriage of the said parties…
A correlation
between the giving
or taking of property or valuable security and the marriage is essential,
Controversial
Gujarat irrigation Bill gets Governor’s nod
With Governor
Kamla Beniwal giving her approval, the decks have been cleared for a
controversial Gujarat
law that makes
possession of licence mandatory for sinking a tubewell, borewell or artesian
well on any
agricultural land
and also has a provision for imprisonment. The Bill seeks to regulate sinking
of borewells on
any agricultural
land along with use of groundwater available from it. Violators will be
punished with
imprisonment up to
six months and a fine of Rs 10,000. The law will replace the 134-year-old
Gujarat
Irrigation Act
1879 that permitted sinking of borewells if the depth exceeded 45 metres.
19
lakh teachers to be appointed under SSA
The Centre has
sanctioned appointment of 19.82 lakh school teachers across the country under
the Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan
programme, according to a communiqué issued by the Press Information Bureau.
The
Centre had
requested the State governments to expedite recruitment as well as redeployment
of teachers in
order to ensure
appropriate pupil-teacher ratio as mandated under the Right of Children to Free
and
Compulsory Education
(RTE) Act, 2009. The communiqué also stated that the Centre had sanctioned a
Rs.
6,300 crore
project to strengthen teacher education in the country during the 12th plan.
The National Council
of Teacher
Education (NCTE) had permitted State governments to train over five lakh
teachers through
distance education
mode
Chavundaraya
Award for Settar
Writer S.Settar,
has been chosen for the Chavundaraya Award for 2012–13 in recognition of his
contribution
to the Jain
literature. The award carries a purse of Rs. 20,000 and a citation.
International:
A
shortcut to the space station
A Russian-American
crew arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a fast-track trip
from Earth of
under six hours, the
swiftest ever manned journey to the orbiting laboratory. A NASA astronaut and
two
Russian cosmonauts
opened the hatches of their Soyuz-TMA spaceship and floated into the ISS to a
warm
welcome from the
three incumbent crew, live pictures broadcast on Russian television showed.
Their recordbreaking
trip from Baikonur
cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to docking with the ISS lasted less than six hours,
slashing the usual
travel time by some 45 hours.
45-year
jail term for ‘Monster of Grbavica’
Veselin Vlahovic,
a former Bosnian Serb paramilitary dubbed the “Monster of Grbavica”, was jailed
for 45
years for
inflicting a reign of terror on Sarajevo civilians during the 1992-95 war. The
sentence against
Vlahovic, a
Montenegrin, is the most severe delivered for war crimes by a Bosnian court.
North
Korea ‘readies missiles’ as tensions rise
North Korea has
said it has placed its missiles on “standby” and has warned it can strike
American bases in
South Korea and in
the Pacific, in retaliation for the U.S. dispatching bombers over the Korean
peninsula as
part of a military
drill. While the North has threatened to attack the U.S. and the South in the
past warning
was seen by
analysts as fierier than usual, heightening regional concerns.
Business and Economy:
Special
fund to insure oil imports from Iran likely
India does not
intend to halt imports of crude oil from Iran, notwithstanding the tightening
of sanctions by the
U.S and the
European Union (EU). Instead, the government is working on a scheme to insure
oil import
shipments from the
Islamic nation to maintain smooth supply and to expand trade in other
commodities.
Officials in the
Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry said that although imports from Iran had
witnessed a dip
as compared to
last year, there was no move to completely phase out such crude oil imports.
Hinduja
Group’s lubricant plant commissioned in the UAE
A state-of-the-art
lubricant manufacturing plant and grease processing unit, jointly set up by the
Hinduja
group and the
government in UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah emirate, has been commissioned with an aim
to gain a
regional market
share of up to 8 per cent in the next four years.
Forex
reserves jump to $293.37 billion
Foreign exchange
reserves rose for the second consecutive week, going up by $1.05 billion to
$293.37
billion on a rise
in core currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India said.
Sci. & Tech:
Hope
for type II diabetic patients
Here is some hope
for type II diabetic patients whose blood-sugar levels are not under control
even after
regular medication
and at higher risk of developing serious health complications. The
five-year-old metabolic
surgery, known as
Ileal Interposition, pioneered by a Brazilian surgeon Aureo de Paule, is
gaining
acceptance in many
parts of the world including India and Turkey with over 90 per cent of success
rate. With
India accounting
for 62 million diabetics, the number is expected to reach 80 million by 2025
with most of
them to be type II
diabetics. The Ileal Interposition surgery (small intestinal switch) is a four
to five hour
laparoscopic
procedure where small portion of stomach is removed and a segment of small
intestinal tract
between the
stomach and terminal ileum is brought higher up and put in line again.
Sports
Ponting
joins MI
The new Mumbai
Indians captain Ricky Ponting had a first look at some of the team members
during a
practice match at the Wankhede
Stadium.
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