Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday in his address in the Rajya Sabha defended the UPA's record on reforms introduced in the country. Replying to President Pranb Mukherjee's address to the Parliament during the Budget Session, Manmohan said that he agreed with the President that India needs high growth rate to solve the problems of poverty and unemployment. ...
01:15 PM, Mar 08, 2013
CNN-IBN's special investigation has exposed the shocking attitudes of police towards women and crimes against them. Police officials claim there is political interference in rape cases and that the force is underpaid, overworked and frustrated at work. ...
10:04 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Government is planning to bring in reforms in NSAP pension scheme to include more socially and economically deprived people by covering single women and reducing minimum eligibility age for widows from 40 years to 18 years. The revised scheme which is expected to cost Rs 1,31,626 crore will have an exclusion criteria and the assistance extended to beneficiaries would be indexed to annual inflation. ...
07:15 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Women's rights activist Sucheta De shared her perspective on how the parliamentary panel's support to the govt on the decision to leave marital rape out of the legal framework will affect the quest for gender equity. ...
07:02 PM, Mar 04, 2013
India on Wednesday welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from China, saying that Chinese companies could take advantage of India's goal to increase the share of manufacturing in the economy from 16 per cent to 25 per cent by 2022. The climate in India today is welcoming of FDI, including from China, Indian Ambassador to China S Jaishankar said while speaking at India-China Investment Forum in Beijing. ...
01:39 AM, Feb 28, 2013
A day after making a strong push for comprehensive immigration reform, President Barack Obama has warned lawmakers that if the Congress fails to move forward he will propose his own legislation on the contentious issue. Obama conveyed the message through four Democrat senators - Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Robert Menendez and Michael Bennet - who are part of a bipartisan group of eight senators who introduced a framework for immigration...
11:04 AM, Feb 14, 2013
How does the exclusion of marital rape from the govt ordinance impede the women's rights movement in India? All India Students' Association's National secretary Sucheta De joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:54 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The Congress on Thursday formed a six-member group led by former Union Minister Ambika Soni to suggest measures for electoral reforms, an idea mooted by Congress President Sonia Gandhi at the party's recent Chintan Shivir in Jaipur. ...
09:19 PM, Jan 31, 2013
A "very promising budget" is on the anvil, Congress on Wednesday said indicating that the Union Budget 2013-14 will be replete with populist schemes as also economic reforms. "A very promising budget is going to come. The government is now well in control. Economic steps are the most important thing.... In next year we are going to have many programmes, which are going to have far-reaching consequences. ...
04:41 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said general elections are 15 months away and the Budget to be presented next month will be "responsible". Addressing global investors, on the fourth leg of his overseas roadshows that began last week, he said the government will implement many of the decisions and changes in the run-up to the polls. ...
07:57 PM, Jan 29, 2013
In a detailed and scathing report the 3-member Justice JS Verma Committee has called for stricter implementation of existing laws, police reforms, gender sensitisation of the security agencies and judiciary along with several changes in the IPC to deal with crime against women particularly rape cases. ...
11:15 PM, Jan 24, 2013
In a detailed and scathing report the Justice JS Verma Committee has called for stricter implementation of existing laws, police reforms, gender sensitisation of the security agencies and judiciary along with several changes in the IPC to deal with crime against women particularly rape cases. ...
11:59 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh was elected as the Bharatiya Janata Party President on Wednesday as Nitin Gadkari opted out of the race following corruption allegations against him. ...
11:58 PM, Jan 23, 2013
A month after the brutal Delhi gangrape and murder, the Justice Verma Committee submitted its recommendations to check crimes against women on Wednesday. The report has suggested changes in an entire gamut of laws to bring speedier justice for crimes against women. ...
11:57 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The Justice JS Verma Committee rejected the suggestion of chemical castration of rapists as it considered handing down such a punishment would violate human rights and that mutilation of the body is not permitted under the Constitution. ...
10:37 PM, Jan 23, 2013
A month after the brutal Delhi gangrape and murder, the Justice Verma Committee submitted its recommendations to check crimes against women on Wednesday. The report has suggested changes in an entire gamut of laws to bring speedier justice for crimes against women. ...
04:38 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Demands for death penalty to rapists and sweeping police reforms, including fifty per cent all-women police stations, reverberated during the discussions at Congress Chintan Shivir coming in the backdrop of the barbaric Delhi gangrape incident. ...
05:34 PM, Jan 19, 2013
It is a chilly winter morning in Chandigarh. Pramod Kumar is in deep discussion with retired judge KS Grewal and Additional Director General of Police SK Sharma at a roomy office in the Institute for Development and Communications on how to stop harassment of women in public places. "Perhaps," he suggests, "we should suspend driving licences of those who harass women, or deny police verification for passports." Justice Grewal says...
12:28 PM, Jan 18, 2013
The Congress' high powered strategy meet will begin in Jaipur on Friday amidst speculation that party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will take a frontal role as the party prepares for general elections 2014. ...
09:27 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Just months ahead of elections in Pakistan, a lesser known Sufi cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri is carrying out a million-man march to Islamabad demanding electoral reforms. But many are calling his actions politically motivated. ...
09:15 AM, Jan 14, 2013
