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disabled, aged and non-human citizens. For persons with disabilities (PwD), life in India is like running on an unending obstacle course. What is more unfortunate is that even if a few among them manage to cross those hurdles — discrimination, lack of accessible infrastructure and facilities, and educational and skilling support, to name a few — most falter on yet another track: employment.

Read our complete Budget 2024 coverage here An Interim Budget is traditionally supposed to be just a vote-on-account shorn of any mega announcements or benefits to people. The government is likely to stay on the fiscal course-correction glide path in the Interim Budget for FY25, shunning populist spending or incentives ahead of the summer general election, ET has reported recently, based on information from people aware of deliberations on the subject. The government is also concerned that any consumption booster could exacerbate inflationary pressures and jeopardise efforts to rein in prices. At the same time, capital expenditure may be raised again in FY25 from the ₹10 lakh crore budgeted in the current fiscal year to spur economic growth, given its high multiplier effect, including the crowding in of private investment. The government expects to meet the FY24 fiscal deficit target with a higher-than-anticipated revenue mop-up, making up for the increase in spending under some heads. Where does all this leave the taxpayer who expects Finance Minister Nirmala SItharaman to announce income-tax incentives and benefits in the Interim Budget?

By Daniel Wiessner

Tynan Phelan resolved to get in shape last year because he wasn’t happy with his appearance. He started taking 5- to 10-mile walks with his dog and worked his way up to jogging, indoor rowing and moderate strength training. His weight dropped from 270 pounds to 200 pounds.

By Daniel Wiessner

Sanatana discrimination," the junior Stalin was quoted as saying. Unfazed by the widespread opposition and emphasizing the stance of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Sanatana Dharma, Udhayanidhi Stalin said he would repeat his remark again. “I will again and again, talk on the issue that I spoke at the event on Saturday.

Aviva said it would be contesting the claim but declined to comment further on legal proceedings.

Centre's submission on pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370 that the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir is «subordinate» to the Indian Constitution, which is on a higher pedestal.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people seeking or already granted asylum

Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people seeking or already granted asylum. The lawsuit alleges that SpaceX wrongly claimed that federal export control laws barred it from hiring anyone but US citizens and permanent residents.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people seeking or already granted asylum

By Kanishka Singh

Tata Group's TCS reportedly got partial relief in a discrimination lawsuit case in a New Jersey court, in the US on Wednesday. Last year, a former employee of the company, Shawn Katz filed a lawsuit against the IT giant in the United States alleging for racial discrimination against non-South Asian and non-Indian applicants and employees. Katz was with TCS for nine years before being let go.

US soldier crossing into North Korea, Pyongyang said on Wednesday claimed that the soldier has admitted «illegally intruding» due to "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army", Yonhap news agency reported citing country's state media KCNA on Wednesday. North Korea has further claimed that the soldier, Travis King has expressed a willingness to seek refuge there or in a third country.

A former NatWest manager who was dismissed after getting cancer has been awarded £87,699 by an employment tribunal.

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay have complained of food discrimination after some posters discouraging non-vegetarians from sitting in the canteen were put up on the walls of one of the hostels in Mumbai. The posters read "vegetarians only are allowed to sit here." The incident came to light when the posters emerged on social media.

A representative of BBC staff in Cairo on a three-day strike for equal pay with colleagues in the Middle East has accused the broadcaster of “gross discrimination.”

Former CNN reporter Saima Mohsin has launched a legal battle against the news channel, accusing them of unfair dismissal and racial discrimination following a serious injury she sustained while reporting in Israel. The British-Pakistani journalist was left with a disability after her foot was run over by her cameraman's car during coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in Jerusalem. The incident caused extensive tissue damage, making it challenging for her to sit, stand, walk, or return to work full-time.

University Grants Commission (UGC) to specify steps it has taken and proposed to take, to provide non-discriminatory, enabling environment for the students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes in institutions of higher learning, terming it a «very serious issue». A bench of Justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh asked the UGC to furnish the details of steps taken on a plea by the mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, who had allegedly died by suicide following alleged caste-based discrimination in their educational institutions. While Vemula, a dalit Ph.D scholar at Hyderabad Central University, had ended his life on January 17, 2016, Tadvi, a tribal student at TN Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai, took the extreme step on May 22, 2019 due to alleged caste-based discrimination by three doctors of her institution.

equality and social justice, the Assembly Judiciary Committee of California recently conducted a hearing for Senate Bill 403 (SB403), which aims to prohibit caste discrimination, according to a report published by ABC10.  If passed, California would become the first state in the United States to explicitly ban caste-based discrimination by including caste as a protected category under the state's Unruh Civil Rights Act, as well as fair housing and employment laws. The bill has been passed by the Assembly Judiciary Committee, and now it will move to the Appropriations Committee.

An ex-Grant Thornton auditor who said he resigned from the firm to avoid returning to the “toxicity” of the office after working from home, has lost a tribunal claim against the firm.