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New Delhi:Ministry of External Affairs and Women and Child Development Ministry are working on a proposal to nab such husbands who cheat upon Indian girls and flee to foreign countries beyond the reach of Indian law. The government is not only making change in CrPC but also in the passport laws.

Sources said that this was being done to put a check on swindle bridegrooms. He felt that bringing such people to the legal ambit was the only solution to this problem. However, the government is also working on other options like spreading awareness and providing information about other safeguards. There has been a major policy shift in the approach of the government.

New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice DipakMisra ordered an in-camera hearing of the Kathua rape case saying that the trial should be conducted on a day-to-day basis to avoid delay. The Jammu and Kashmir government was given the liberty to appoint its own public prosecutor to conduct the trial.The Supreme Court transferred the Kathua gang rape and murder case outside Jammu and Kashmir to Pathankot in Punjab ruling out a CBI probe.

SC ordered the district and sessions judge to personally undertake trial proceedings and not assign it to any other judge. It directed there should be no break between examination and cross-examination of the witnesses, who will be provided police protection by state government when they travel to Pathankot. The bench also ruled that the top court would monitor the case and that no court, except the SC, will hear any petition related to it.

New Delhi: Former Union minister and suspended Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on once again raked up a controversy by attributing the two nation theory to Hindu Mahasabha founder VD Savarkar.Aiyar targeted the ruling BJP saying V D Sawarkar is the ideological guru of ‘those who are currently in power in India’.

Amid the row over Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aiyar said that Savarkar was the one who invented the term Hindutva and tried to divide people on religious lines.

"Present situation in India is an aberration, In 1923 a man called VD Savarkar invented a word which doesn't exist in any religious text, 'Hindutva'. So the first proponent of the two nation theory was an ideological guru of those who are currently in power in India," Aiyar reportedly said in Lahore.

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is taking no chance to attack the Modi government for the so-called wrong economic policy adopted by the government. The former Prime Minister attacked Modi over the state of India’s economy, saying the country was facing crises that were avoidable.

“Our nation today is experiencing difficult times. Our farmers are facing an acute crisis, our aspirational youth are not finding opportunities, and the economy is growing below its potential. The unfortunate truth is that each of these crises was entirely avoidable,” he said.

Singh said it pained him to see the government stifle dissent when deficiencies were pointed out, rather than stand up to challenges. The former prime minister said it was important to pay careful attention to policy making as it affected people’s lives, and, hence, it was crucial to not act on “mere whims and fancies”.