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Labour will set up a brand new employment rights ministry alongside a new workers’ protection agency to bang up bad bosses, Jeremy Corbyn pledged at TUC Congress on Tuesday. The Labour leader said the new agency would have “real teeth,” including powers “to enter workplaces and bring prosecutions on workers’ behalf.”

Healthcare knows no boundaries. The work of Red Cross and Doctors without borders is acknowledged globally. They work in conflict situations many a times risking their lives. Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis born on 10 October 1910 in Solapur, Maharashtra, also known by his Chinese name ‘Ke Dihua’, was one of the five Indian physicians dispatched to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He died serving the sick people in a land totally alien to him on 9 December 1942 at a prime age of 32. Bhai Kanhaiya, a legendary figure in Sikh history who would offer water to the wounded whether Sikh or Moghul soldiers in 1704 during the battle in Anandpur Sahib is well known for his human outlook. He was praised by Guru Gobind Singh for his humanitarian work.

After a stunning victory in the recent Lok Sabha polls, the BJP is targeting to retain the three poll-bound states — Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand — where elections are scheduled for later this year. The party chief Amit Shah has prepared an ambitious “Mission 75-plus” for the assembly polls in Haryana, “Mission 65-plus” for Jharkhand and “Mission 220-plus” plan for the election for the 288-member Maharashtra. These polls will be an acid test to see whether the BJP continues its winning streak.

LUCKNOW: Shocked by the present scenario, the Indian Institute of Management here advised Yogi Government to ' improve law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh to bring more investment'. This observation was made when experts of IIM prepared road map for the development of UP during day-long interactive session attended by CM Yogi Adiyanath and his ministers at the campus.

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

Pro BJP elements holding key position in the JD(U) have launched a resolute attack on the close aids of the party supremo Nitish Kumar. This insinuation campaign has been hastened by these leaders once they came to comprehend that RJD was trying to have fresh understanding with Nitish for reviving the Grand Alliance and resurrect the secular forces.

Whether in Kashmir or Assam, the BJP has been trapped by the fallout from the pursuit of its right-wing policies which militate against the liberal tenets of the constitutional system.

The latest round of public sector bank (PSB) mergers — the third since 2017 — may help the merged banks cut their operational expenditure and improve bottomline, but the initiative seems to have come at a wrong time. The merger of 10 PSBs into four may make a total of well over 30,000 employees surplus if the experience of the merger of associate banks with SBI is any indication. Such large job losses in the midst of economic recession is bound to impact the overall market demand badly, leading to further job cuts in various other sectors.

It is often said that one year is a short time in the lifetime of a country, and even law, but one year could be a long tumultuous one in an individual’s life. On 6th September, 2018, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (‘LGBTQ’) community changed forever, at least in law, if not in reality. On that day, the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Johar & Ors. V. Union of India [2018 (10) SCC 1] struck down Section 377, IPC, to the extent that it criminalized sexual acts between consenting adults, especially between homosexual persons, as unconstitutional. In doing so, the Supreme Court overturned its own appalling decision in Suresh Kumar Koushal v. Naz Foundation (2013), which upheld the validity of Section 377, thereby bringing to curtain one of the longest litigations in the history of India, starting from November, 2001 in Delhi High Court in Naz Foundation v. NCT of Delhi (2009), with its roots going even further in AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (‘ABVA’) v. Union of India (1994). For over 20 years, the entire LGBTQ community had rallied around to repeal the law, and to claim their fundamental rights to dignity, freedom and non-discrimination, while navigating their sexual identity in family, schools, colleges, workplaces, and in public spaces.

Will there ever be an end to the Brexit crisis? With a stubborn new Prime Minister apparently unwilling to admit defeat, and Members of Parliament opposed to a no-deal U.K. withdrawal from the European Union—the so-called “Rebel Alliance”— holding their ground, it seems the end of Brexit is nowhere near.