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New Delhi, Jun 24 :  The Cabinet on Monday approved the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority(Amendment) Bill, sources said. 

The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) is a regulator that has the powers to set the tariffs charged at airports.

The amendment is likely to allow the AERA to bid out any new airport at a pre-determined tariff structure, sources said.

Currently, major airports with an annual capacity to handle one-and-a-half million passengers come under the purview of AERA. 

If the amendment is passed by the Parliament, the definition of major airports would be changed to any aerodrome which has or is designated to have annual passenger capacity of three-and-a-half million.

The AERA (Amendment) Bill was last approved by the Cabinet during the Modi government's first tenure in December 2017. However, it could not be passed in last year's monsoon session. 

As new Lok Sabha has come in place now, the older bill has lapsed. Therefore, the Cabinet approved the bill again on Monday so that it can be re-introduced in Parliament for passage.   [Agencies]
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New Delhi, June 12 :  The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a fresh bill to ban the practice of instant triple talaq, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said.


The bill will replace an ordinance issued in February by the previous BJP-led NDA government.

The fresh will be introduced in the budget session of Parliament, beginning Monday, Javadekar said.            [Agencies]
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New Delhi, Feb 19 :   The Union Cabinet Tuesday gave its nod to re-issue the contentious Triple Talaq ordinance that makes the practice of instant triple talaq by Muslim men a penal offence.

The Cabinet has given its nod to the Triple Talaq ordinance, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters in the Cabinet briefing, noting that it is among those ordinances and bills which had been passed by the Lok Sabha but could not be taken up in the Rajya Sabha due to continuous protests by opposition parties. 

Once signed by President Ram Nath Kovind, the triple talaq ordinance will come into force for the third time in less than one year.

A bill on the ordinance making the practise of 'talaq-e-biddat' (instance divorce) void and an offence is pending in Rajya Sabha. The bill will lapse on June 3 with the dissolution of the present Lok Sabha. 

Opposition parties and some community leaders have claimed that jail term for a man for divorcing his wife is legally untenable. The government has asserted that it provides justice and equality to Muslim women.

To a question about the need for a government to clear several ordinances, including the one on triple talaq, weeks ahead of the general election, Jaitley said discussions on these ordinances and bills had been "physically prevented" in Parliament. 

"It (discussion) has not been prevented because numbers were against it... Indian democracy cannot be helpless. Extraordinary situations do call for such steps," he said, adding that some ordinances, including one against inter-state ponzi scheme, are in a larger national interest. 

The government has promulgated the ordinance on triple talaq twice. 

Under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Ordinance, 2019, divorcing through instant triple talaq will be illegal, void and would attract a jail term of three years for the husband 

A Bill to convert the earlier ordinance, issued in September, 2018, was cleared by the Lok Sabha in December and was pending in the Rajya Sabha 

Since the Bill could not get parliamentary approval, a fresh ordinance was issued. 

Seeking to allay fears that the proposed law could be misused, the government has included certain safeguards in it such as adding a provision of bail for the accused before trial. 

These amendments were cleared by the Cabinet on August 29, 2018. While the ordinance makes it a "non-bailable" offence, an accused can approach a magistrate even before trial to seek bail. 

In a non-bailable offence, bail cannot be granted by police at the police station itself. 

A provision has been added to allow the magistrate to grant bail "after hearing the wife", the government had said.                                                   [Agencies]
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Hello Jammu News at 7:19:00 PM 0
New Delhi, Jun 27 :  The Union Cabinet today approved an array of agreements with various countries in sectors such as aviation and urban development.

The Cabinet gave its nod to an MoU between India and Singapore on cooperation in the field of urban planning. 

The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in May.

The agreement will facilitate government agencies at the Centre and in states to tap into the expertise of Singapore agencies in the areas of urban development and management.

The Cabinet also approved an agreement with Denmark on cooperation in the field of science, technology and innovation.

The agreement was signed in May and it will help researchers from scientific organisations, academia, research and development laboratories and companies from India and Denmark.

"Renewable energy, water, material science, affordable healthcare, synthetic biology, functional food, and blue economy were identified as potential areas for immediate collaboration," an official statement said.

Another MoU approved by the Cabinet relates to cooperation in the field of civil aviation with Germany. 

It will lead to promotion of safe, effective and efficient development of air transport between India and Germany and also help in development of heliports and helicopter emergency medical services.

The Cabinet was also appraised of an implementing arrangement for pre-formulation studies of a Maritime Domain Awareness Mission signed between India and France in March.

The proposed joint mission will be devoted to maritime domain awareness, with the objective to provide relevant data and services to both nations. 

The objective is to monitor the maritime traffic and to identify the non-compliant ships at the maximum possible revisit frequency.

The Cabinet was also apprised of an MoU signed between India and Denmark for cooperation in the fields of animal husbandry and dairying in April.

Danish partnership is expected to facilitate exchange of knowledge and expertise in the areas of animal breeding, animal health and dairying, and fodder management aiming at enhancing production and productivity of Indian livestock.

The Cabinet was apprised of another MoU, this one between India and Indonesia, on technical cooperation in the railway sector.

The agreement will provide a framework of cooperation for focused approach in the areas of capacity building, modernisation of rolling stock, signalling systems and creation of freight terminals.

Another agreement cleared by the Cabinet is with Bahrain in the field of healthcare.

A working group will be set up to further elaborate the details of cooperation and to oversee the implementation of the MoU, the statement said.     PTI

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