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The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice will be meeting for three consecutive days this week to take up over a dozen private member’s bills. — APP/File ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice will be meeting for three consecutive days this week to take up over a dozen private member’s bills, including seven constitution amendment bills. The agenda for the meeting starting from July 13 issued by the NA Secretariat shows that the committee headed by Riaz Fatyana of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) will take up a total of 16 bill...

Know Your Rights: How to adopt a child in India; Read more on rules and laws Know Your Rights: How to adopt a child in India; Read more on rules and laws Any Female Hindu, Who Is Of Sound Mind, Who Is Not A Minor And Who Is Not Married, Or If Married, Whose Marriage Has Been Dissolved Or Whose Husband Is Dead Or Has Completely And Finally Renounced The World Or Has Ceased To Be A Hindu Or Has Been Declared By A Court Of Competent Jurisdiction To Be Of Unsound Mind, Has The Capacity To Take A Son Or Daughter In Adoption.

Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani took to Twitter to flag adoption requests as illegal and urged people to prevent trafficking in the garb of adoption and report all such cases to 1098 or police or a Child Welfare Committee. In Odisha’s Ganjam district, a 45-day-old girl was found next to her mother’s body, when neighbours broke open the door of their house in Golapalli village. Suspecting it to be a case of death due to COVID-19, the local police sent the corpse for post-mortem and contacted the centre in-charge for Childline 1098, the national helpline for children,...

Representatives from the Te Tauihu Iwi Chairs Forum have called on Nelson, Tasman, and Marlborough councils to give Māori "a seat at the table".

Datuk Michael Chong KUALA LUMPUR: A family who openly show off their Datuk Seri and doctorate titles, with the father even supposedly having a professorship, are now under scrutiny. The family comprising the father, mother and their sons, who are all supposedly titled, had uploaded pictures with their honorifics on their company website. But a check showed no details of their awards and academic qualifications. MCA Public Services and Complaints Department chief Datuk Michael Chong said this was the first time he had come across an entire family with so many titles. “If the titles are authe...