Bharat Rakshak

As the experience in rural Andhra Pradesh shows, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana has made a positive impact beyond the inexplicable surge in accounts and deposits after demonetisation.

The government collected nearly Rs 26,500 crore till December last year in form of tax through a non-filer monitoring system, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in a written reply told Parliament on Friday. fe “Due to constant and intensive follow-up of NMS data, more than 1.72 crore tax returns have been filed by the persons in different NMS cycles and self assessment tax of about Rs 26,425 has been paid by them till December, 2017,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. The Finance Minister said that the Ministry has now broadened the mechanism of accumulation and verification of financial information by including various types of high-value transactions from banks and financial institutions in the form of Statement of Financial Transaction (SFT).

Nearly 35 lakh non-tax filers with tax liability have been identified, informed Finance Minister. He also said that Permanent Account Number (PAN) is helping in producing enough data that the tax department is comprehensively mining to track tax evaders. For the April-January period, direct tax collection grew by 19.3 percent to Rs 6.95 lakh crore against the needed 18.3 percent growth for the full year to meet the revised estimate target of Rs 10.05 lakh crore in the current fiscal. The government revised the direct tax collection target upwards from Rs 8.5 lakh crore, in the Budget presented earlier this month.

This agreement with France will send a message to China that we are preparing to expand our own presence in our own backyard, which is the Indian Ocean, as well as near the South China Sea, which is considered as China’s sphere of influence,”

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Union Cabinet clears ordinance on death penalty to child rapists

NEW DELHI: In the wake of outrage over the brutal rape and murder of a minor in Kathua, Jammu & Kashmir, the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday approved an ordinance to allow courts to pronounce the death penalty + to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age.

The criminal law amendment ordinance seeks to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act to introduce a new provision to sentence convicts of such crimes to death.

Today's ordinance approved by the Cabinet also prescribes the minimum punishment in case of rape of women to increase from rigorous imprisonment of 7 years to 10 years, extendable to life imprisonment. In case of rape of a girl under 16 years, minimum punishment has been increased from 10 years to 20 years, extendable to imprisonment for rest of life, which means imprisonment till that person’s natural life.

For speedy trial of rape cases, new fast track courts will be set up in consultation with States/UTs and High Courts.

The ordinance also prescribes that there will be no provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of rape or gang rape of a girl under 16 years.

The ordinance is being initiated to enforce the amendment immediately before a bill is introduced and passed by Parliament. After the case of the eight-year-old Kathua + victim, other instances, such as in Surat where a nine-year-old was raped and killed, have added urgency to the government’s actions.
The ordinance would be now sent to the President for his approval.

Existing provisions of the POCSO Act provide for life imprisonment, though after the Nirbhaya case in 2012 the Centre had introduced the death penalty in cases where a woman either dies or is left in a vegetative state after rape.

If you are from J&K state, we will definitely help you. But your profile says you are from 'Indian occupied Kashmir'. There is no place like that.

India's GDP grew at the fastest pace in seven quarters at 7.7 per cent in January-March, retaining the fastest growing major economy tag on robust performance by manufacturing and service sectors as well as good farm output.

India's economic expansion at 7.7 per cent was significantly higher than China's 6.8 per cent in the January-March period.

However, the Indian economy on yearly basis grew at a four-year low of 6.7 per cent in 2017-18, down from 7.1 per cent in the previous ..

"GDP at 2011-12 prices in the fourth quarter of 2017-18 registered growth rate of 7.7 per cent as against 5.6 per cent , 6.3 per cent and 7 per cent, respectively, in the first three quarters, Q1, Q2 and Q3 of 2017-18. Rapid growth in agriculture (4.5 per cent), manufacturing (9.1 per cent) and construction (11.5 per cent) contributed to the overall growth," the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said in its national accounts data released today.

The previous high GDP growth of 8.1 per cent was recorded in April-June quarter of 2016-17. The GDP growth was 6.1 per cent in January-March in 2016-17.

Only five years ago, the possibility of questioning people like Bhasin or searching a blue-blooded law firm would have been highly unlikely — at the slightest hint of trouble afoot, a call would have been made to someone influential and the case would have been pushed on to the backburner and, eventually, forgotten or even closed. Not so anymore. “No politician will step in because the agency can include them in the case,”

The number of women who die during childbirth in India has come down sharply, with more women now delivering children in hospitals.

The maternal mortality rate (MMR) , according to the sample registration system (SRS) data released by the office of Registrar General of India on Wednesday declined to 130 in 2014-16 from 167 in 2011-13 — a significant improvement on a parameter widely used by analysts and developmental economists to rate a country’s progress.

MMR is defined as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. The 22% reduction in MMR since 2013 means nearly one thousand fewer women now die of pregnancy-related complications each month in India.

The Union health ministry is attributing this improvement mainly to rise in institutional deliveries across the country.

“This is a great achievement for us and a major contributing factor is that almost 80% of women are now giving birth in hospitals, both public and private. If you look at decade-old numbers, the percentage was just about 40%,” says Dr Ajay Khera, deputy commissioner, child health, health ministry.