Ban on two finger test for rape
Centre prohibits the test and asks all hospitals to set up a designated room for forensic and medical examination of rape victims. New manual also drafted to address the psycho-social impact of sexual violence including counselling that the victims should receive to alleviate her woes.
Trucks can’t carry protruding rods now
Government bans carrying of rods, pipes or any protruding material beyond the body frame. Provision in the Central Motor Vehicle Rules allowing protrusions up to one metre deleted.
Drug pricing policy favours market leaders: Report
Report by Public Health Foundation of India says the policy is heavily loaded in favour of firms, particularly those selling drugs priced on the higher side. Asks government to revert to the earlier cost-based pricing mechanism.
Jats now in OBC list for central quota
Jats from nine states have been included in the central list of OBCs for reservation in central government jobs and educational institutions.
Apology not enough for contemnors: SC
Slaps a fine of Rs 50 lakh on a medical college in Madhya Pradesh which admitted 107 more students in MBBS course than what was permitted by the court.
Refusing sex during honeymoon not cruelty: HC
The Bombay High Court sets aside a family court’s order which dissolved a marriage on the grounds that woman refused sex during honeymoon, donned shirts and pants to office occasionally and went out of town for office work soon after marriage.
SC upholds termination of spying officers
Upholds Centre's decision to terminate services of army officers allegedly caught spying for Pakistan in 1978 citing thorough investigation and President’s order under the pleasure doctrine.
Rubbing of private parts is attempt to rape
Bombay High Court refuses to consider the act only as outraging modesty and also rules out rape.
Passport service goes rural
Department of Electronics and Information Technology will launch passport related services through the vast network of over one lakh common services centers across rural India by the end of March 2014. Pilot mode on at 15 locations in Uttar Pradesh.
Environment Ministry accepts Kerala’s recommendations on ESAs.
The recommendations included proposal to keep agricultural land, plantations and habitations out of ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) identified by high level working group.
Only 1% of sexual violence victims in India report crime: Lancet
Sexual violence affects as many as 27.5 million women in India, though only one per cent of the victims report the crime to police, says a report in the latest edition of British medical journal.
HC asks Delhi govt to appoint more prosecutors
Faced with acute shortage of public prosecutors and overburdening of the existing ones, the Delhi High Court has asked the state government to appoint more prosecutors in the wake of creation of more courts and appointment of more judges.
Railways launch new 'SMS Gateway'
Will enable passengers to get SMS alerts on the status of reserved tickets based on their PNR.
SC upholds penalty on film bodies
Dismisses appeal by a few regional distributor/exhibitor associations against a Competition Commission of India order penalising them for denying entry to movie producers in their regions.
NGT halts textile dying, printing units
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered suspension of work in textile dying and printing units in Pali district of Rajasthan for operating without consent to operate from the Rajasthan Pollution Control Board.