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The Anti-trafficking Bill will be sent to the Cabinet for approval and then tabled in the Parliament after taking into a...
14/07/2021

The Anti-trafficking Bill will be sent to the Cabinet for approval and then tabled in the Parliament after taking into account suggestions and commendations.

Some changes are as follows:

Punishments and imprisonment tenures become more stringent, depending on the intensity of the crime. Any offense of trafficking in person will be punished with not less than seven years of imprisonment, a possible extension till ten years and a fine of at least a lakh rupees. ‘Aggravated offences’ which include death of the victim, organ damage or removal, child victims, etc. can be punished with an imprisonment term of ten years, with possibility of extending it for lifetime and fine over ten lakh rupees. On basis of barbarity of the crime, death penalty can also be sentenced.

The Bill also seeks to broaden the range of offenders by bringing public servants and army personnel under its ambit. Crimes with cross-border implications will also be considered under the scope of this Bill. Provisions have been set for the forfeiture of any property that has been purchased via trafficking income.
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The company has faced a series of backlash. During the era it came under scrutiny for harbouring an environment of fet...
19/06/2021

The company has faced a series of backlash. During the era it came under scrutiny for harbouring an environment of fetishising and objectifying female bodies

Chief Executive, Leslie H. Wexner came under fire for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

In 2018, Chief Marketing Officer, Edward Razek had to issue an apology about remarks around transgender women not being suitable stars for the show, and he retired soon after in August. Post this the company hired its first openly transgender model
The once successful VS angels fashion show has seen a contraction in audience from 9.7 million in 2013 to 3.3 million in 2018.
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Debt-trap diplomacy is a notion that describes a powerful lending country or organisation attempting to saddle a borrowi...
18/06/2021

Debt-trap diplomacy is a notion that describes a powerful lending country or organisation attempting to saddle a borrowing country with massive debt in order to gain leverage over it.
China does not follow any international frameworks established by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank to define its approach to debt sustainability issues, preferring to deal with nations on an individual basis. Its lending methods are opaque and inconsistent, and they do not meet international norms.
While the BRI has coincided with the establishment of Chinese-led multilateral development institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank (NDB), they do not represent China's bilateral lending policies.
Traditional lenders, such as the IMF, are confronted with the difficulty of not knowing how China would respond to each country's situation as public debt grows across the developing world.
Sri Lanka owes China $8 billion by 2015, with the country's foreign debt to GDP ratio expected to reach 94 percent.
Furthermore, while China portrays these agreements as simply economic, Sri Lankan officials have acknowledged that the intelligence and strategic potential the port provides were discussed throughout the talks - elements that have major security implications for India.
China's leverage on countries grows as their debt grows.
Given that developing nations already owe the IMF and the World Bank money, it's critical to assess if Chinese cash will provide actual value and allow for the development of high-return initiatives.
Instead, it should look for ways to match its investments and loans with the investment practises of other large multilateral creditors in order to safeguard BRI's local economies, develop weak institutions, and align with the investment patterns of other major multilateral creditors.
Failure to do so will have disastrous consequences.

World leaders, while congratulating Naftali Bennett, are also waiting with bated breaths to see how he impacts their for...
17/06/2021

World leaders, while congratulating Naftali Bennett, are also waiting with bated breaths to see how he impacts their foreign relations and most importantly, what he brings to the age-old question of Israel and Palestine.

Benjamin Netanyahu, lovingly called ‘Bibi’, the outgoing leader has taken to becoming the opposition in a sporting way, but his disagreement of the government in power is clear from his words.

Palestinians remain almost unaffected by the change because the stance of the new Prime Minister is not very different from the outgoing leader. It does, however, dampen their chances at any negotiations or peace talks that they might have been looking forward to.

Congratulations have poured in from global leaders, however, Jordan and Egypt have held back from sending their congratulations to Bennett considering the last act of violence between Israel and Palestine.
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In a situation where states are facing revenue deficits and a tussle is going on between the Centre and the states for c...
16/06/2021

In a situation where states are facing revenue deficits and a tussle is going on between the Centre and the states for compensation and borrowing of money, a state like Telangana spends in crores to buy costly cars for its officials.
Haseeb Drabu went on to say that while government spending has no effect on the macroeconomy (inflation or interest rates), it does have an influence on poverty alleviation.
According to the PRS research, states spend the majority of their budget on three essential services. Economic services, which include agriculture, transportation, and power, are the first. Second, there are social services, which include education, health care, and housing. The third group includes common government services such as state administrative costs
Budgetary expenditure reflects both the aims of the current administration and the state's requirements.
Government spending is divided into two categories: revenue and capital.
Revenue spending, which comprises administration, plan ex*****on, and salary payment, accounts for the majority of state budgets, which is estimated to be around 84 percent provisionally.

States were slammed with an unexpected income shock in April, as the country went into lockdown in response to the covid pandemic.

As India's GDP in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2020 went down to 3.1% (according to the Ministry of Statistics), the majority of states such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, and others saw a comparable retrenchment.

Even before the pandemic, the economy had slowed, making it difficult for governments to balance their budgets. In the past few months, there have been frantic moves to hike gasoline and liquor taxes, as well as sell land holdings. However, it may be insufficient, considering that governments are in the vanguard of the pandemic's fight and must invest more to preserve lives and livelihoods.
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Samajwadi Party and Aam Aadmi Party leaders have accused the Ram Mandir Teerth Khater’s Trust in Ayodhya of allegedly pu...
15/06/2021

Samajwadi Party and Aam Aadmi Party leaders have accused the Ram Mandir Teerth Khater’s Trust in Ayodhya of allegedly purchasing a property through an illicit deal for Rs. 18.5 Crore.
The trust however, dismissed the allegations as ‘influenced by politics and are misguided’ since transactions were carried out with ‘transparency’.

Raja or Raja Patna or Mithuna Sankranti is a 3 day long festival of womanhood celebrated in Odisha.It has similarities t...
15/06/2021

Raja or Raja Patna or Mithuna Sankranti is a 3 day long festival of womanhood celebrated in Odisha.
It has similarities to Ambubachi Mela, which is an annual Hindu mela held at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam.
But “Raja” assigns no notion of impurity to menstruation truly making it a unique festival celebrating femininity and womanhood!
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The Delhi High Court bench comprising of Justices Siddharth Mridul & Anup Jairam Bhambhani, today observed , “No prima f...
15/06/2021

The Delhi High Court bench comprising of Justices Siddharth Mridul & Anup Jairam Bhambhani, today observed , “No prima facie material” while granting bail to three individuals accused in the Delhi Riots case.
Prima Facie is used as an adjective, meaning “sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted.”
The observation was made after a preliminary analysis of the chargesheet alleging UAPA offences relating to terrorist activities.
The court noted that the allegations in the chargesheet highlighted that the accused were part of mobilising people and organising chakka-jam (road blocks) as form of protests against the CAA.
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The Centre, The State and the Vaccination Policy:According to various experts and analysts, the policy rolled out on May...
14/06/2021

The Centre, The State and the Vaccination Policy:
According to various experts and analysts, the policy rolled out on May 1st, placed a financial burden on states, who were to procure vaccines from the market and private players on their own budgets for administration to the 18-44 age group.

The Central Government had become a monopolistic buyer and was getting vaccines at a cheaper price than the states, and it was a cause of worry for financially distressed states and union territories.

The Centre countered saying that it was a step to attract private vaccine manufacturers to India, but very clearly, it has backfired.

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