In August 2017, the Supreme Court declared the right to privacy a fundamental right. This judgement made many transparency advocates apprehensive, fearing that the right to privacy might be deployed first and foremost to shield authorities from scrutiny by citizens.
The Supreme Court has found a pragmatic middle path between the Aadhaar scheme’s excesses and its benefits to the marginalised. The government argued that Aadhar is essentially a transformative scheme primarily aimed at reaching benefits and subsidies to the poor and the marginalised.
Recently, a five-judge bench of Supreme Court refused to disqualify candidates with criminal cases pending against them from contesting elections.
Bioethicists fear abuse of gene editing by governments and the private sector. Crispr, an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, harnesses the natural defence mechanisms of bacteria to alter an organism’s genetic code.
The recent deaths of six sewerage workers in Delhi in two separate incidents form part of a continuing series of such deaths. The pressure of poverty forces these workers to descend almost bare-bodied into sewers full of filth and excreta, fully knowing that they may asphyxiate to death as have many others like them.
According to statistics released by the WTO in July, the share of India in total world merchandise exports was 1.68 per cent in 2017, a level it has more or less maintained since 2011. The preceding decade was better when India more than doubled its share from only 0.7 per cent in 2001 to 1.67 per cent in 2011.
Kerala bravely endured the monsoon storms, but it would be a mistake to think that disasters of this magnitude are “once in a hundred year” events.
Ayushman Bharat has been rolled out as a health protection scheme. It will provide guaranteed access to treatment that is free at the point of delivery to about 40% of the population selected on the basis of censused socio-economic indicators.
Ayushman Bharat is a far-reaching initiative aimed at ensuring holistic healthcare services. It’s first component involves expansion of services with elements of promotive and preventive healthcare under comprehensive primary health through health and wellness centers.
Happiness has come to be accepted as a goal of public policy. And this discourse has given a fillip to a new narrative where the interconnections between law, governance and happiness are being searched.
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