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The Central wants to expedite the privatization of two state-owned banks. The necessary government process has already started in this regard. The news agency PTI quoted a source in the center as saying on Wednesday. The Narendra Modi government had earlier amended the Banking Regulation Act to pave the way for private investment in state-owned banks. According to sources, the Center wants to pass a bill in this regard in the upcoming Badal session of Parliament. Initially, two state-owned banks have been listed for liquidation. The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said last year that the Center wanted to start the process of privatization of several state-owned banks. She said that for this purpose two laws of bank nationalization of 1970 and 1980 and the Bank Control Act of ...

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Pollution Kills 24 Lakhs People Every Year In India: Lancet Planetary Health Journal

Arpita SarkarMay 19, 20220

India tops the world on the pollution map. Every year at least 24 lakh people are dying in India due to pollution from the air, water, organic and industrial wastes, vehicles, etc.! Second, on the list of pollution in China, the number of annual deaths is 22 million. This has been reported in a recent international study on pollution. A pollution report published in The Lancet Planetary Health Journal, as a result of pollution, at least 9 million people worldwide die each year. America is in seventh place on that list. More than 1 lakh 12 thousand people die every year due to pollution there. The death toll from pollution has risen by more than 55 percent in the two decades since 2000, according to the study. Philip Landrigan, a member of the survey team and director of the Globa...

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Tamil Nadu, Karnataka Among Top States To Have Marriages Among Blood Relations: Centre

Arpita SarkarMay 14, 20220

Tamil Nadu ranks first in the country in blood relations. Karnataka is in second place. Such information was given by the National Ministry of Family Welfare in a nationwide survey. According to the survey conducted in the financial year 2019-20, 2% of marriages in Tamil Nadu are between blood relations. Karnataka, another southern state, is only 1% away. According to the survey, 11% of marriages in the country are between families. However, as a state, this trend is more prevalent in the southern states. Doctors say that there are various problems in marriage due to blood relationships. It includes health issues. Inter-caste marriages increase the risk of thalassemia in children. There are two main reasons for such a trend. One is the issue of caste and the other is the issue...

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Wife’s Right To Live Not Limited To In-laws, But Also In Rented Houses: Supreme Court

Arpita SarkarMay 13, 20220

The right of married women to reside will not be limited to the in-laws. She may also have the right to stay in the rented house of her husband who is out of work. The Supreme Court made important observations at a hearing in a domestic violence case on Thursday. A division bench of Justice MR Shah and Justice VV Nagaratna said, "The issue of property rights of the married couple would not be confined to the husband's ancestral home." The case was filed by a woman. She complained of domestic violence after becoming a widow. She also told about the difficulty of her living. According to the apex court's observation, in many cases, Indian women living outside their in-laws' houses have to face a number of problems. In particular, about their living. So their right to live or pro...

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Petition Filed In Allahabad High Court To Open 22 Closed Rooms In Taj Mahal

Arpita SarkarMay 9, 20220

The BJP approached the court seeking the reopening of '22 houses' locked in the Taj Mahal. At the same time, they have requested to form a fact-finding team to check whether there was any temple in this monument. The media in-charge of the BJP's Ayodhya branch, Rajneesh Singh filed the petition in the registry of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Saturday. "I have applied to the court to open 22 closed rooms in the Taj Mahal," Rajneesh told PTI on Sunday. Whatever the truth, it should be made public." Incidentally, extremist Hindu groups claim that the Taj Mahal is actually a Shiva temple called 'Tejo Mahalaya'. The petition said that a fact-finding team should submit a report to know the history of the monument under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). On...

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Narendra Modi Government Is Silent On Bringing Back Vijay Mallya And Nirav Modi; Opposition Takes a Dig!

Arpita SarkarMay 8, 20220

Towards the end of the UPA era, the BJP called Manmohan Singh a "weak prime minister". It was said that if Narendra Modi comes to power, the center will continue with the 'strong' policy. According to political sources, it is easy to talk of 'fifty-six inches' in domestic propaganda. But sitting in government and facing economic and geopolitical challenges is another matter. That fact seems to have come to the fore in bilateral meetings of Indian leaders with heads of state and ministers from Britain, Denmark and Italy in the last two weeks. No effective decision or announcement was made on the return of Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Kim Davy, who was involved in the Purulia shootings, and the Marines who shot dead two Kerala fishermen in Indian waters, but no meeting was held after thos...

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Pandemic Lowered Young People’s Faith In Many Governments: International Monetary Fund

Arpita SarkarMay 7, 20220

The experience of the Pandemic around the world has shaken the confidence of the youth in the government. "The results of the COVID epidemic, which researchers have been saying so far from a survey of historical epidemics, have been substantiated," said International Monetary Fund (IMF). The survey however did not say which countries' youth communities were most affected. Prior to COVID, the Treasury team came to this conclusion after combining the experience of the survey with the project on the relevant subject in 140 countries till 2018. According to the survey, those who are between the ages of 18 and 25 who have witnessed the outbreak of COVID have lost faith in the government the most. However, the survey also found that in countries where government policy is generally bel...

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Fresh Heatwave Spell In North India From May 7; Warns MET Office!

Arpita SarkarMay 6, 20220

Again heatwave warning. Temperatures are expected to rise again in north-western and central India from Saturday. The heat may be felt again in the heat of the sun. The recent storms and rains in the capital Delhi will not last long, informs the weather office. Although a heatwave warning has been issued since Saturday, the weather in the capital and adjoining areas will remain pleasant till Sunday. The new heatwave may start in Delhi on Monday. The latest weather forecast issued by India Meteorological Department said that the heatwave will start from Thursday in northern parts of Madhya Pradesh and some parts of Maharashtra. The heatwave is expected in Rajasthan from Saturday to Monday and in Haryana, Delhi, south-western Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Vidarbha in Mahara...