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Vanzara, Pandian narco tests postponed (06 May 2008)
Narco tests on two suspended IPS officers - Deputy Inspector General of Police D G Vanzara and Superintendent of Police Rajkumar Pandian, accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, have been postponed and new dates will soon be announced.
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Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers: 100 crore provided in 2008-09 (05 May 2008)
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has formulated Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers w.e.f. January, 2007. The scheme provides for training, capital subsidy and concessional loan for rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their dependents. A provision of Rs. 100.00 crore has been provided under the scheme for the year 2008-09.
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Nalini moves HC seeking early release (30 Apr 2008)
Nalini, one of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case, today moved the Madras High Court seeking her early release from prison.
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Shivraj Patil argues for greater emphasis on prison reform (25 Apr 2008)
The Union Minister of Home Affairs, Shri Shivraj Patil has called for giving due importance to prison reforms and correctional administration and assured the State Governments of Centre’s support in carrying out the necessary reforms.
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Pranab Mukherjee makes statement on Indians in Pakistani jails (24 Apr 2008)
According to available information, there are 436 fishermen and 205 Indian prisoners in jails in Pakistan. In the absence of consular access, it is not possible to determine the details of sentences awarded.
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Kodaikanal Naxal encounter: Habeas corpus referred to Madras HC CJ (21 Apr 2008)
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has referred to the Chief Justice, for posting before another Bench, a Habeas Corpus petition seeking to produce a Naxalite before the court whose colleague was gunned down in an encounter by the police at Kodaikanal.
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More time needed to probe Dinhata firing, says Judicial committee (18 Apr 2008)
The judicial probe committee, appointed by the West Bengal government to investigate the February 5 firing at Dinhata in which six people were killed, visited the Dinhata Sub-Divisional Office.
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Kumari Selja demands more ways to make cities more inclusive (17 Apr 2008)
Kumari Selja, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has stressed the need to find the ways of making our cities more inclusive. She said that with the urbanisation of the cities , we are slowly increasing the divide between the rich and the poor whereby every large city stands divided into ‘the city of the rich’ and the ‘the city of the poor’.
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No discussion on new methods to determine poverty line (17 Apr 2008)
The Planning Commission estimates the incidence of poverty at National and State level form the large sample survey on household consumer expenditure conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) following the methodology contained in the Report of the Expert Group on Estimation of proportion and Number of Poor. No communication has been received in the Planning Commission form the state with the demand to determine the formula for measuring poverty afresh.
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Madurai bench calls for confidential monitoring of sexual abuse in schools (17 Apr 2008)
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has called for setting up of a confidential and an independent monitoring system in government and private schools in Tamil Nadu to curb sexual abuse and harassment of girl students.
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