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New Delhi: The NGO running shelter home in Muzaffarpur district of Biharfor destitute girls where inmates were allegedly found sexually abusing these girls, has been sanctioned another project by the Bihar welfare department for running a beggars’ home in Patna.

Social Welfare Department director Raj Kumar said that the NGO, however, was removed from the project after the allegations of sexual offences of the girls in Muzaffarpur became public,

“The department neither gave any work order nor signed any agreement with ‘SevaSankalpEvamVikasSamiti’ for the project. It had only issued a letter for carrying out inspection of the building which was to be used for running the beggars’ home,” Kumar said.

New Delhi: A landmark privacy bill drafted by Justice B N Srikrishna committee provides for certain exemptions from provisions of the Bill, especially when data needs to be accessed for purposes of national security, police investigations and legal proceedings. The committee seeks to protect citizens’ data and privacy.

The draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 – part of the Srikrishna panel report – provides for regulations on how personal data is to be handled by various entities, including the state. However, it does make key exemptions, such as consent, under special circumstances.

New Delhi:Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)chief Amit Shah had a meeting with Rashtriya Swayam sevak Sangh Sarsangh chalak Mohan Bhagwat in Mumbai in the backdrop of the ongoing agitation by the Maratha community seeking job reservation in Maharashtra.The duo held talks at Yashwant Bhavan, the RSS office in Mumbai but what transpired between them was not known.

However, a BJP source said Shah and Bhagwat discussed ways to strengthen the ruling party in the state, which will see both Lok

New Delhi: Campaign committee chief of Madhya Pradesh Congress Jyotiraditya Scindia is meeting local Congress leaders on their home turf instead of calling them to Bhopal. Local leaders and party workers say this electoral strategy is injecting vigour into their campaign. This has been a major shift in the style of functioning of the Madhya Pradesh Congress in the run-up to the assembly polls.

The Congress has been out of power in MP since 2003 and is trying to unseat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by pursuing a vigorous ground-level campaign.