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Basic rights in the country have now become “luxuries" and "entitlements” bestowed upon only those who toe the government's line on political, social and religious matters, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Saturday. Mufti, the PDP president, said the fundamental rights enshrined in the Indian constitution and guaranteed to all Indian citizens “are being brazenly impinged …

"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." There has always been conflict between parliamentary privileges given to all the members of the houses and the rights given to all the citizens under part III of Indian constitution. Commenting on …

Rights Of Repatriated Indian Workers : Kerala HC Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Effective Mechanism To Address Claims & Grievances

The Kerala High Court has issued notice to the Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt of Kerala & NORKA roots in a writ petition filed seeking an effective mechanism that will document and capture all kind of claims and grievances of repatriated Indian Migrant workers. According to the Petitioner the Transitional Justice …

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Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if men, not women, were bearing and delivering babies. Maternity benefits, of course, are reasonably generous for a small minority of Indian women employed in the formal sector and covered, in principle at least, under the Maternity Benefit Act. Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, all pregnant women are entitled …