The agreed reforms, providing income support for the poor and allowing people to retire earlier, are the centrepiece of the government’s controversial 2019 “people’s budget”. But critics say the policies are unsustainable for Italy’s already-strained public finances. The agreement means that, despite having to make some concessions after a drawn-out battle with Brussels over the budget, the two ruling parties get to keep their flagship election promises to voters. “These are two measures...this government is proud of,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told reporters at a press conference yesterday. “This is a government that keeps its promises.” A woman reads the election manifesto on the M5S website. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP The bill must now be approved by parliament within two months, but it’s expected to pass easily. The current government is a coalition forged with difficulty last year between the right-wing League … [Read more...] about Italian government approves overhaul of welfare and pensions
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Equal Pay For Equal Work To Sexual Autonomy: Read The Significant Judgments Of Supreme Court On Women’s Rights
Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Smti Juma Sinha October 5, 2018 12:22 pm Change Font Size “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”[1]―this were the words of Noble Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who rightly pointed towards the indispensability of making every woman in the world self-sufficient as the development of human race would not be possible without it and the Indian judiciary has been prodigiously vibrant in influencing the course of social change by being the voice of women whose cries were unheard for a long time. From the landmark decisions elucidating the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ way back in 1982 to the recent decision in Sabarimala temple case in 2018 recognizing the right to religion as not gender categorical, our judiciary has always recognized and fortified the principle of parity as … [Read more...] about Equal Pay For Equal Work To Sexual Autonomy: Read The Significant Judgments Of Supreme Court On Women’s Rights
Restriction On Manufacture and Sale Of Oxytocin By Private Entities Stayed By Delhi HC [Read Order]
Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Manu Sebastian August 31, 2018 10:31 pm Change Font Size The Delhi High Court has stayed for one month the Central Government order preventing manufacture and sale of drugs containing oxytocin by private companies. The impugned order permitted only a public sector company, Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceutical Ltd(KAPL), to manufacture and sell oxytocin drugs. Oxytocin is an important hormone for living beings. Oxytocin based drugs are effective in human beings to prevent excessive bleeding after child-birth. However, oxytocin is rampantly misused in cattles to increase milk production. Consumption of such hormone-induced milk can cause health hazards in humans. With the purported objective of stemming the abuse of oxytocin in veterinary sector, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued the order on April 27, banning the manufacture and sale of drugs with oxytocin formulations by companies other than KAPL. This … [Read more...] about Restriction On Manufacture and Sale Of Oxytocin By Private Entities Stayed By Delhi HC [Read Order]
Restriction On Manufacture and Sale Of Oxytocin By Private Manufacturers Stayed By Delhi HC
Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Manu Sebastian August 31, 2018 10:31 pm Change Font Size The Delhi High Court has stayed for one month the Central Government order preventing manufacture and sale of drugs containing oxytocin by private companies. The impugned order permitted only a public sector company, Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceutical Ltd(KAPL), to manufacture and sell oxytocin drugs. Oxytocin is an important hormone for living beings. Oxytocin based drugs are effective in human beings to prevent excessive bleeding after child-birth. However, oxytocin is rampantly misused in cattles to increase milk production. Consumption of such hormone-induced milk can cause health hazards in humans. With the purported objective of stemming the abuse of oxytocin in veterinary sector, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued the order on April 27, banning the manufacture and sale of drugs with oxytocin formulations by companies other than KAPL. This … [Read more...] about Restriction On Manufacture and Sale Of Oxytocin By Private Manufacturers Stayed By Delhi HC
Gordon Brown warns of growing child poverty crisis
0 Have your say Former prime minister Gordon Brown will today warn of a “devastating child poverty crisis” across Scotland and the UK, with the number of ignored and neglected youngsters north of the Border set to double to almost 400,000. The ex-Labour leader will attack the Westminster and Scottish governments for “shamefully ignoring” the problem, which is creating a “generation of invisible boys and girls” when he appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.The SNP government has not done enough with Holyrood’s new powers to tackle Tory-led austerity cuts at UK level, Mr Brown will say. He will call for an increase in child tax credits as the most effective way to cut child poverty numbers. The number of children living in poverty is set to increase to 5.2 million by 2022, up from around four million, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).Scottish Government projections published earlier this … [Read more...] about Gordon Brown warns of growing child poverty crisis