Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Govt. leaves decision on Section 377 to the court<\/a><\/p>\n The government chose not to take sides on the question of the legality of Section 377 IPC, a provision which criminalises homosexuality, leaving the decision entirely to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n Adultery must remain a punishable offence: Centre<\/a><\/p>\n Section 497 says that if a man has sexual intercourse with another’s wife without the husband’s “consent or connivance”, he is guilty of the offence of adultery and shall be punished”.<\/p>\n Fall of Sec. 377 will embolden LGBTQ people: CJI<\/a><\/p>\n Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra indicated that collapse of the citadel of Section 377 IPC will open the gates for people from the LGBTQ community to come to court to overcome discrimination and claim their individual rights.<\/p>\n GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n High on rhetoric<\/a><\/p>\n Punjab\u2019s drug menace demands an all-out war that goes beyond empty gestures<\/p>\n Traffickers, peddlers, mules or users?<\/a><\/p>\n At a Cabinet meeting on July 2, the Punjab government recommended to the Union government the death penalty for first time offenders convicted for drug trafficking and smuggling.<\/p>\n GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Aadhaar must for health mission cover<\/a><\/p>\n The government has mandated the use of Aadhaar card for administering its massive Ayushman Bharat, or National Health Mission, that assures a \u20b95 lakh health cover to 10 crore families.<\/p>\n A clean cooking strategy<\/a><\/p>\n In its drive towards sustainability and energy security, India must ensure an awareness of better cooking fuel choices<\/p>\n The problems with the HECI draft Bill<\/a><\/p>\n The Higher Education Commission of India is likely to overregulate and micromanage universities<\/p>\n Mercenary conservation<\/a><\/p>\n Allowing for private forests can leadto illegal activities and change thenatural behaviour of wildlife<\/p>\n Internet benefiting rural China<\/a><\/p>\n 55 million students in rural schools have access to live streaming classes<\/p>\n Climate change threatens Nilgiri tahr<\/a><\/p>\n The endangered wild goat could lose approximately 60% of its habitat, starting from the 2030s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archives Govt. leaves decision on Section 377 to the court The government chose not to take sides on the question of the legality of Section 377 IPC, a provision which criminalises homosexuality, leaving the decision entirely to the Supreme Court. Adultery must remain a punishable offence: Centre Section 497 says that if a man has… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 July 12, 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-must-read-news-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/newspaper.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704940441},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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