What you should be reading from today’s newspaper…
The Hindu
National
- Internet use rises in rural India: The use of social media has doubled in rural India over the past year. Social media has been the main reason for most people accessing the internet for the first time.
- Tomorrow is World Yoga Day: The idea of International Day of Yoga had been mooted by the Indian Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly.
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Child Labour in the garment sector: Over 8000 children are emplyed in the garments industry in the National Capital alone, and 70% of them are girls.
Economy/Business
- New method to arrest stashing of black money: The Union Govt is going to come up with a compliance window under the black money law, to allow persons having illegal money stashed abroad to pay taxes and penalty and come clean about it (without fear of punishment).
- Setting up of commercial courts: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Grievances, Law and Justice has put forward the need for the setting up of commercial courts in the country for quick redressal of commercial disputes. About 22 categories of commercial disputes have been identified.
- Cooperative banks to have management boards: To improve professionalism in urban co-operative banks, Y.H. Malegam committee had given certain recommendations including establishing a Board of Management, consisting of persons with professional skills. The RBI has started insisting on it now.
International / World Affairs
- India failing to curb terrorism funding: The US State Dept has accused India of being unable to stop funds to terrorists. It says the Indian govt. has yet to implement anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws effectively.
Editorial/Opinion
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The changing face of Hindutva: Riots in Atali, Haryana are showing a new model of Muslim oppression – rather than the rape, murder or forcible eviction of Muslims, Hindutva forces are cultivating a far more durable system of normalised oppression where Muslims are compelled to become permanent participants in their own subordination.
- Reforms in the real estate sector: India’s real estate sector needs large funding, transformative infrastructure development, and supportive regulatory and policy mechanisms to achieve social and economic objectives.
- Should “accountability of public officials” extend to judges too: Criticism of judges on the grounds of inefficiency is invalid without a mechanism to assess judicial performance in the first place.
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