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Birth certificates not needed any more In a move to speed up and simplify the passport delivery process, the government on Friday announced a series of steps that would help single mothers, orphaned children, and sadhus obtain passports with ease. Announcing the changes that will relax the need for birth certificates in the application process, …
Disruptions have become an endemic feature of the functioning of the Indian Parliament. This has led to widespread public outcry that has focused on two elements— first, the waste of taxpayers’ money on a perpetually disrupted and consequently, non-functioning Parliament; second, the legislative paralysis that has stultified governance. However, little attention has been paid to …
To increase overall transparency in the economy and to remove the pernicious influence of cash on the political and economic system, it is essential that we take a longer term view and bring in measures that would influence the behaviour of the consumers as well as merchants to shift to digital payment instruments. It is …
KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT STORM 'VARDAH' How This Storm Get Its Name The cyclonic storm ‘Vardah’, which is brewing over the Bay of Bengal, has been named by Pakistan. The cyclone is termed as ‘Vardah’ which means ‘rose’ in Arabic and Urdu. Eight countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Sri Lanka and Thailand —contributed a …
At the age of seven, I was subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Mumbai, in a most unhygienic and clandestine manner. The shock and trauma of that day are still with me. Like me, there are thousands of my Dawoodi Bohra sisters who have been subjected to genital cutting as children and even today …
Bohras are the only community in India, where FGM (also known as Female Genital Mutilation or khatna) is being secretly practiced in the 2 million strong Bohra community. The practice involves cutting a part of a 7 year old girl child’s clitoris. The practice is harmful to the girl child and the woman and has been declared …
Why do people earning over Rs 10 lakhs need reservation? We have just seen two unnecessary subsidies removed. The LPG subsidy was removed for people earning more than Rs.10 lakhs per annum. The Parliament Canteen food subsidy was removed for MPs. Reservation was provided in our constitution to enable under-privileged sections of Indian society. It was provisioned …
I am a single parent. My Husband abandoned my daughter and me when she was born just because she was a girl. He never looked back and doesn’t even care whether we’re dead or alive. Recently, I applied for the passport of my daughter. My daughter doesn’t want her father’s name on the document. Our …