Moushumi Das Gupta writes on infrastructure, urban development, water, and gender issues.
Articles by Moushumi Das Gupta
Meet Alakh Alok Srivastava, the lawyer behind the PIL for death to rapists of children
Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava had filed the PIL in his personal capacity seeking justice for an eight-month-old girl who was brutally raped by her 28-year-old cousin in Delhi.
Updated on Apr 22, 2018 07:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Govt to start database of sex offenders
Police and legal authorities in any state would be able to access the data for verification of the antecedents of those charged with sexual offences, according to the ordinance cleared by the Union cabinet
Updated on Apr 22, 2018 04:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Cabinet approves ordinance to seize properties of fugitive economic offenders
The ordinance seeks to confiscate properties of economic offenders, like Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya, who have left the country to avoid facing criminal prosecution.
Updated on Apr 21, 2018 05:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta and Jatin Gandhi
Cabinet clears ordinance for death penalty to child rapists
The move seeking death penalty for child rapists comes after nationwide outrage over the brutal rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua and the alleged rape of a minor in Unnao.
Updated on Apr 21, 2018 04:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta and Jatin Gandhi
To accept or not? Venkaiah Naidu to consult legal experts on CJI removal notice
Though no time limit has been prescribed by the rulebook, in previous cases when similar notices were submitted, the time taken by the RS chairman/Lok Sabha speaker to decide varied between three and 13 days.
Updated on Apr 21, 2018 11:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Cabinet to take up today ordinance on death penalty for child rapists
The government told the Supreme Court on Friday that the process to amend the POCSO Act has been launched, and the special legislation would include death penalty as punishment for raping children under 12.
Updated on Apr 21, 2018 12:37 PM IST
New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta and Jatin Gandhi
No tracking devices in public transport vehicles for a year
For new commercial public transport vehicles such as buses and taxis, the government is likely to defer the mandatory installation of tracking systems and panic buttons by three months
Updated on Apr 20, 2018 07:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Kathua, Unnao rapes reminiscent of December 16 case that shook India
The events that followed the December 16, 2012, incident set the tempo for similar spontaneous, citizen-led protests that hold the government accountable.
Updated on Apr 14, 2018 11:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Firecracker fumes can cause miscarriage, stunt growth: Govt
The ministry of women and child development is pushing for stringent regulations on firecrackers across India.
Updated on Apr 13, 2018 08:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Moushumi Das Gupta
Maneka Gandhi says govt will amend law to ensure death penalty for child rape
Minister speaks about the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Jammu.
Updated on Apr 13, 2018 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Policy dive: All you need to know about Trafficking of Persons Bill, 2017
Policy Dive picks a policy issue, traces the debate around it, the different schools of thought and the choices involved.
Updated on Apr 12, 2018 08:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Nehru’s worst fears about upper house coming true, says Naidu
The Rajya Sabha chairman expressed anguish over an ‘eminently forgettable’ post-recess budget session, which lost more than 113 hours to constant disruptions.
Updated on Apr 06, 2018 05:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Now, new concept to measure length of highways from April 1
Experts and government officials said the change would better capture the actual length of highways constructed in the country.
Updated on Apr 03, 2018 11:26 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Moushumi Das Gupta
Govt’s optical fibre cable project BharatNet entangled in turf war
The BharatNet project has got entangled in Right of Way issues between the DoT and the ministry of road transport and highways. The roads ministry has denied permission to DoT to lay cable within highways RoW until the department pays the license fee.
Updated on Apr 02, 2018 07:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Too early to give prenuptial agreement legal backing: Govt
The government’s position emerged from a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday called by the Union women and child development ministry to deliberate on whether such agreement should have a legal standing
Updated on Mar 26, 2018 11:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
BJP-led NDA sets early deadlines for central schemes with eye on 2019 election
Focus will be on key welfare programmes and farm and rural sector schemes in the wake of agrarian distress. Most central programmes originate at the Centre but they are implemented and monitored at the level of the states.
Updated on Mar 24, 2018 07:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Zia Haq and Moushumi Das Gupta, New Delhi
President Kovind and V-P Venkaiah Naidu to head India’s Africa outreach with three-nation tour
The three-nation trips will take to 24 the number of African countries visited by the President, Vice-President and the Prime Minister. India has received 12 heads of government and state from Africa since it hosted the Africa Forum summit in October 2015.
Updated on Mar 22, 2018 11:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta & Jayanth Jacob
Govt may soon cap life of commercial vehicles at 20 years
Nitin Gadkari recently said the policy was needed to curb vehicular pollution.
Updated on Mar 16, 2018 11:24 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Moushumi Das Gupta
120 kmph on e-way: Higher speed limits to be unveiled soon
In a first, the road ministry has also decided to introduce speed limits on roads within municipal limits. But it will be tough to implement it unless the states come on board.
Published on Mar 14, 2018 11:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Moushumi Das Gupta, New Delhi
Pune tops in urban governance, Delhi ranks sixth in 23-city survey
The study by a Bengaluru-based advocacy group painted a grim picture of India, finding a majority of its cities “grossly unprepared” to deliver a high quality of life in the long term.
Updated on Mar 15, 2018 08:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Car owners may have to pay to use 21 congested Delhi roads
No time frame has been set about when the congestion fee will kick in.
Updated on Mar 12, 2018 09:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
From ‘voidable’, child marriage to turn illegal
To address the inconsistency, the Union women and child development ministry has decided to amend the law and make child marriage ‘void ab initio’ or invalid from the outset.
Updated on Mar 04, 2018 08:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Indian set to begin operations at Chabahar Port by May-end
India is building a container terminal and a multi-purpose cargo terminal with a total waterfront length of 1,240 metres at Chabahar Port. Of this, it wants to start operation on 360 metres by May-end.
Published on Feb 22, 2018 10:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
New urbanisation policy to be finalised in 2 months
The policy comes exactly three decades after the National Commission on Urbanisation, headed by planner Charles Correa, came up with a roadmap on tackling growth in small and mid-sized cities.
Updated on Mar 27, 2018 07:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
After Africa tour, Kovind to visit Mauritius, Madagascar on second foreign trip
Kovind will visit Mauritius and Madagascar in March, two important countries in the Indian Ocean region, in the midst of evolving political crisis in the Maldives.
Updated on Feb 14, 2018 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Govt proposes changing law to confiscate property of NRI men deserting Indian wives
The Union women and child development ministry reiterated that it will ask for the statute of limitations to be relaxed for child sex abuse cases.
Updated on Feb 13, 2018 07:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
One in 4 urban children under the age of 5 suffer from malnutrition, Delhi tops list: Survey
The survey covered Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Surat, Pune and Jaipur.
Published on Feb 07, 2018 11:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Khadi commission seeks Rs 525 crore compensation from Fabindia
The KVIC has alleged that Fabindia was misleading consumers by selling “factory made” cotton garments spun in mechanised charkhas (spinning wheels) as khadi.
Updated on Feb 05, 2018 10:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Moushumi Das Gupta
Ganga water cleaner than it was in 1986?
A Union water resources ministry official said though cleaning of Ganga is a continuous process, the measures taken by the government in the last few years are slowly showing results.
Updated on Feb 04, 2018 07:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Rajesh Ahuja and Moushumi Das Gupta
Union Budget 2018: 54% hike for smart city mission, AMRUT loses
The program to develop 100 smart cities – 99 have been selected till now – has been allocated Rs 6169 crore in 2018-19 .
Updated on Feb 01, 2018 11:56 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Moushumi Das Gupta