Ashok Agarwal

Nagaland not to implement ban on sale of cattle for slaughter, says NPF minister; cites impact on food habits

A minister in the Naga People's Front (NPF), an ally of the BJP in Nagaland, said that the state is not going to implement the recently-issued rules of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960, which bans the sale of cattle for slaughter

School fee hikes loot parents; AAP govt only blowing its own trumpet: Child rights' lawyer

Consistent fight against arbitrary fee hike should continue. Education comes under the Concurrent list and this is an all-India problem.

Maintenance tribunal comes to 72-year-old mother's aid

New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Coming to the rescue of a 72-year-old woman, a Delhi maintenance tribunal for elderly people has ordered her two sons to pay her a monthly maintenance sum and allow her to live in her house, from which she had been turned out. The maintenance tribunal held that her two sons would pay Rs.4,000 each per month to their widowed mother, who would also be allowed to live in her own house.

Heard at last: Delhi HC relief for suffering govt school students

As per the court’s order, if pending electricity bills are not paid by schools within a week of being given notice, the school officials will be held for contempt of court.

Delhi nursery admission: Mission Impossible?

While the right to education is embroiled in litigation, parents are out before the crack of dawn, steeling themselves against Delhi’s cold winter morning, standing in serpentine queues in the hope of getting a nursery seat for their child.