Validity of Aadhar to avail govt subsidies : SC order
1)
Clearing all doubts about the validity of Aadhaar card to avail of
government subsidies, the Supreme Court confirmed that the card is not
compulsory.
2)
The SC said that insistence on Aadhaar card is in clear violation
of the SC’s interim order of September 23, 2013.
3)
In the 2013 order, the apex court had directed that no person
should suffer for not getting the Aadhaar card, in spite of the fact that some authority
had issued a circular making it mandatory.
4)
The court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Aadhaar
scheme as an encroachment into the public’s right to privacy.
5)
The NCT government’s notification on March 9, 2015, insisting that
couples require Aadhaar cards to get their marriage registered under the Special
Marriage Act.
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India tops Facebook's content bar list
1)
Facebook restricted access to nearly 6,000 pieces of information
on its website in India between July and December 2014 following requests from
the government and other agencies to act against hate content on the social
media platform.
2)
It
is the highest for any country in the world.
3)
In its Global Government Requests Report for the second half of
2014, Facebook said 5,832 pieces of content were restricted in the country, higher
than the 4,960 in the first half.
4)
Governments contact Facebook to restrict access to content that
they believe violates their laws.
5)
The social media platform said the vast majority of these requests
related to criminal cases such as robberies or kidnappings.
6)
In many of these cases, the request seeks basic subscriber
information such as name and length of service. Other requests have asked for
IP address logs or actual account content
7)
In restricting Facebook content, India is followed by Turkey with
3,624 pieces of such content, Germany (60), Russia (55) and Pakistan (54).
8)
India is second only to the United States, which made 14,274
requests in the corresponding period.
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Inflation at record low
1)
The
Wholesale Price Index (WPI) fell for the fourth straight month showing
de-growth of 2.06 per cent in February.
2)
It
had declined (-)0.39 per cent in January, and was 5.03 per cent in Feb, 2014.
3)
Food
prices rose 7.74 per cent.
i.
The
inflation in prices of onions, pulses and protein rich food items such as egg,
meat and fish rose
ii.
The
prices of vegetables, fruits and milk declined.
4)
The
decline in inflation is attributed to fall in fuel and power inflation at (-)14.72
per cent against (-)11 percent in January.
5)
The
government also revised the December WPI rate to (-)0.5 per cent from 0.1 per
cent reported earlier.
6)
The
consumer price inflation (CPI) accelerated to 5.37 per cent in February from
5.19 per cent in January on the back of higher food and fuel prices.
7)
Counter
views :
i.
The
decline in prices of manufacturing goods points to fragile demand conditions
and indicates that robust recovery has yet to set in.
ii.
Cheaper
food, fuel and manufacturing products push inflation in the negative zone for
the fourth straight month.
iii.
Industry
demands further easing of interest rates to boost industrial growth.
iv.
Unseasonal
rains this month could be a dampener, the decline in food inflation may be
short-lived, according to experts.
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