Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill

A look at juvenile justice laws enacted by Parliament in the past 55 years shows that
lawmakers have always leaned in favour of reformation and social re-integration of
child offenders rather than populating Indian jails with them.
The Bill is founded on the recognition of the rights of the victims, which, it says, is
equally important as the rights of juveniles.
Starting with the Children Act of 1960, Parliament had always entirely focussed on
the using justice and corrective machinery to reform and rehabilitate juvenile
offenders rather than reducing it to a crime and punishment mechanism.

Nairobi Ministerial Conference of the WTO.

Nairobi Package, contains Ministerial Decisions on public stockholding for food
security purposes, a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) for developing countries, a
commitment to abolish export subsidies for farm exports particularly from the
developed countries. SSM is a tool that will allow developing countries to
temporarily hike duties to counter import surges and price falls of farm items.

Neville Maxwell quote:

In 1967, ahead of the fourth general election, the New Delhi correspondent for The
Times (London), Neville Maxwell, emphatically concluded that the great
experiment of developing India within a democratic framework has failed... society
is going to slip out of reach of an ordered structure of civil government and the
army will be the only alternative source of authority and order.

Integration of armed forces:

2015, however, is neither 1947 nor 1967. It is time to undo some of the measures
that were taken in the early years of Independence to intensify inter-services rivalry
and thus reduce the coordination between them. Todays challenges require a
coordinated armed force that can work in tandem in different spheres of planning,
training, procurement and operations. A number of committees have gone into the
necessity of a chief of defence staff (CDS) and Manohar Parrikar, the defence
minister, has himself signalled the governments intention to create such a post.
The CDS will be a four-star general and serve as a single point of contact for the
defence minister. He would be accorded a place above the three service chiefs in
the pecking order. Little progress, however, has been made due to the infamous
service-bureaucracy wrangling.

We have been slow to reform the structures of our armed forces... we should
promote jointness across every level of our armed forces. We wear different colours,
but we serve the same cause and bear the same flag. Jointness at the top is a need
that is long overdue.