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A blueprint for safeguarding children

Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The historic judgment against the online sexual abuse of children, pronounced by the Supreme Court of India in a petition filed by the Just Rights for Children Alliance, will have a long lasting and global impact on society, crime, and child rights.In January 2024, the Madras High Court had ruled that “merely” downloading or watching child pornography is not a crime, and quashed a case against a 28-year-old man. How can someone who searches for and watches the rape of a child, thereby creating a demand for child rape, walk free? This ruling not only defeated the spirit of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, but also risked normalising the exploitation of children. On September 23, the Supreme ...

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Business

Canada expels 6 Indian diplomats

Ottawa, Oct 14 (PTI): Canada on Monday said it has expelled six Indian diplomats "in relation to a targeted campaign against Canadian citizens by agents linked to the Government of India". The development came around the same time when India announced the expulsion of six members of the Canadian high commission in Delhi. “Keeping Canadians safe is the fundamental job of the Canadian government. The decision to expel these individuals was made with great consideration and only after the RCMP gathered ample, clear and concrete evidence which identified six individuals as persons of interest in the Nijjar case. We continue to ask that the Indian government support the ongoing investigation in the Nijjar case, as it remains in both our countries’ interest to get to the bottom of this,” Ministe...

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Politics

Indian probe team in Pannun assassination plot to travel to Washington on Oct 15: U.S.

Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. File | Photo Credit: AP As the diplomatic row between India and Canada escalated on Monday (October 14, 2024) over the death over pro-Khalistan figure and Canadian citizen in British Columbia last year, the U.S. State Department announced that an Indian investigation team would travel to Washington DC on October 15 to investigate a plot to kill a U.S. Citizen in New York.The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges in November 2023 alleging that an Indian government employee directed a plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Khalistani separatist designated as a terrorist by the Indian government in 2020. Pannun heads Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a group that advocates for a separate homeland for Sikhs or Khalistan.“The Enquiry Committee will...

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Opinion

A strike, and Tamil Nadu’s challenge

CPI(M) leader Soundararajan meets Samsung employees protesting over various demands, in Chennai. | Photo Credit: ANI The ongoing workers’ strike at the manufacturing facility of Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, appears to have put the Chief Minister M.K. Stalin-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government in a spot.The workers have been on strike since September 9, demanding higher wages and union recognition. The demand for recognition of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)-affiliated Samsung India Workers’ Union (SIWU) has been the key friction point between the striking workers and the company’s management. CITU is affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), a DMK ally.Last month, Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya wrote t...

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Opinion

A Korean win: The Hindu Editorial on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

By awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang this year, the Swedish Academy has done two things. It has looked eastwards, after going with European writers Jon Fosse and Annie Ernaux in the past two years; and it celebrates an “innovator in contemporary prose”. While announcing the name, the academy lauded the 53-year-old writer, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. With the human condition as her muse, specifically the question why and how humanity encompasses unspeakable depravity as well as indisputable acts of dignity and kindness, Han Kang has experimented with form and style to tell her stories. Her best-known work availab...

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Opinion

Taking guard: The Hindu editorial on the RBI and growth concerns

In a 5:1 majority verdict, the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), last week, decided to hold benchmark interest rate at 6.50%, the same level it has been since April 2023. One of the three newly inducted external members in the panel pushed for a 25 basis points (0.25 percentage points) rate cut, perhaps citing the decline in the headline inflation rate below the RBI’s median target of 4% in July and August. However, the MPC termed this downward trajectory of inflation as slow and uneven, and expected this moderation to reverse from September, as it has, to hit a nine-month high of 5.5%. The panel has not altered its 4.5% projection for retail inflation and its GDP growth estimate of 7.2% through 2024-25, but has reworked the math. In the second quarter or Q2, it expe...

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Opinion

Letters to The Editor — October 15, 2024

Weakening the RTI It is astounding that there is a huge and growing backlog of appeals and complaints pending in information commissions in India (‘Opinion’ page, “Scuttling people’s right to information”, October 14). The bad attitude and apathy towards the right to information seems deliberate and it may be a matter of time before the Act becomes a dead letter. H. Syed Othuman, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu The RTI Act is a formal way to facilitate the flow of vital information to the public. There was sanctity. Unfortunately, the Act has been weakened. The common man who does not have any political affiliation will assert that the Congress was definitely more transparent and open to public ideas than the BJP. T.M. Uday Shankar, Hyderabad A victim The way the system treated a man on a wheelcha...

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Sports

Coach Parmar thrilled with Baroda’s ‘confidence-boosting’ win against Mumbai

Mukund Parmar. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: VIJAY SONEJI The last time Baroda beat Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy, Yogendra Wakaskar, the new-ball bowler, had starred with a nine-wicket match haul at the Wankhede Stadium in 1998-99. A bespectacled Wakaskar – now a member of the senior selection panel – was as thrilled as anyone else present at the Vadodara International Cricket Stadium on Monday morning. While Wakaskar went on a trip down memory lane, he along with his two other colleagues present at the venue – chief selector Prayan Dave and Umang Patel, were thrilled with the manner in which Krunal Pandya led the team to a memorable win against the 42-time champion. The celebrations filtered into the Baroda dressing room as well. Mukund Parmar, the head coach who was a Gujarat stalwart for tw...

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Politics

Hallmarking gold bullion likely to be mandatory from next year – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Beginning January next year, government will make hallmarking of all gold bullion mandatory. The new regulation will be applicable on all gold bullion, including imports, and will be rolled out in a phased manner.“There is a consensus among all stakeholders and we are confident of making hallmarking mandatory for gold bullion next year. There is a unanimity that whatever is coming to the country should come under our mandatory standard norms.The sub-committee on this matter has submitted its report,” said Pramod Kumar Tiwari, director general of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which implements the hallmarking regulation.Hallmarked gold bullion, used for manufacturing jewellery, will ensure the desired purity of products. The purity mark is mandatory on all gold jewellery and a...

Canadian police link Indian diplomats to murder & extortion, say Bishnoi gang working with Delhi

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Canadian police link Indian diplomats to murder & extortion, say Bishnoi gang working with Delhi

New Delhi: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Michael Duheme Monday accused Indian diplomats of being linked with murder, extortion, intimidation and other crimes in Canada against members of the South Asian diaspora, specifically “pro-Khalistan” individuals, in a press conference held Monday. “Investigations have revealed that Indian diplomats and consular officials based in Canada leveraged their official positions to engage in clandestine activities, such as collecting information for the Government of India, either directly or through their proxies; and other individuals who acted voluntarily or through coercion,” said Duheme in a statement to the press. The RCMP commissioner added: “Evidence also shows that a wide variety of entities in Canada and abroad have been use...

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Culture

Video | Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 में Kartik Aaryan को Case करने पर Anees Bazmee ने किया खुलासा | Bollywood News

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