Renuka hydel power project has been started in the sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh over river Yamuna. It was mainly going to be set up for providing water to the NCR and so funds have been provided to Himachal Pradesh government to initiate the project.
The US Consulate at Lincoln House in Breach Candy and the American Centre at Church gate will be closed to public from November 15th to 21st. This is for the purpose of shifting the consulate services from these locations to Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). Presently the windows available at the consulate are only 13. This was considered inadequate to meet the growing VISA demands and to address the US citizens. The proposed new facility at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) will have 44 windows to look into these matters.
The state of Bengal’s poor government run hospitals becomes clear with the negligence of a nurse which caused the death of a baby boy and resulted in severe injuries to the mother. The nurse in Lalbag hospital in Murshidabad used acid instead of antiseptic to clean a pregnant lady and her child who resulted in the child’s death and severe injuries on the thigh of the lady.
For thousands of inmates in prisons in US convicted of cocaine charges, the prison doors will open early. According to the new rule passed by the Congress there will be sentencing changes easing the disparity between the penalties for possessing or distributing crack vs. powder cocaine. This would mean that those who would caught distributing cocaine would serve less prison time that those who would be possessing it. This would mean that more than 12,000 current inmates are eligible to request reduced sentences. The retroactivity took effect Tuesday. The Sentencing Commission estimates that inmates will have an average of three years chopped off their sentences. An estimated 1,800 inmates became eligible for release immediately because they had already served enough time, and prosecutors did not object to their release. Attorneys have noted that under the old guidelines someone who had just 5 grams of crack cocaine would receive a mandatory minimum sentence of five years. But someone would have to have 500 grams of powdered cocaine to receive a similar sentence.
William Johnson, a Virginia man convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 1997, was one of those released Tuesday. Under the terms of his original sentence, he would have been eligible for release in October 2018, and that sentence was reduced a few years ago so that his revised release date was June 2014.
Labor MPs has claimed for the thousands of victims of domestic violence will be left to suffer in silence as a result of government cuts to legal aid. So now the MPs have given the green light to plans to strengthen the legal rights of the householders who use force to defend their home.
The Government of U.K. is amending the legal Aid and Sentencing bill to require a minimum punishment of four months detention and training order for 16 and 17 year old convicted of threatening person by the help of knife. The ministry of Justice says that 60 to 80 beds are required in accommodation of young people. The report of Ministry says that around 200 to 400 more people between 16 to 17 will receive custodial sentence in a year and the total expenses on them is around 2 to 4£ a year. Last year 12% of the offences for possession of knife or offensive weapons resulted in a custodial sentence for the 16 and 17 year old people and total 276 people was detained for this punishment.
The British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced in an international conference in London that cyberspace should not be controlled by governmental agencies issuing a direct challenge to China and Russia over regulation of the internet. Nothing would be more fatal or self-defeating than the heavy hand of state control on the internet, which only thrives because of the talent of individuals and of industry within an open market for ideas and innovation, he said.
The Public Procurement Policy for goods produced and services rendered by Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE’s) under Section 11 of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006, got the Cabinet’s approval today. This policy is aimed at improving production quality of the MSE’s and equipping them to compete with large enterprises.