Digest of domestic news for the week Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2013

Saturday New Delhi: Marital rape will also attract stringent punishment under the ordinance proposed by the Centre. Sex by husband with his wife during separation without consent will lead upto seven years of imprisonment, according to the proposed ordinance on anti-rape law approved by the Union Cabinet. New Delhi: Observing that MNREGA has brought has about "financial inclusion" of rural population, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expresses confidence that bank and post office accounts opened under the central scheme will assist government in providing direct cash transfers to the people. Sunday New Delhi: Two days after it was cleared by the Union Cabinet, an ordinance on sexual violence against women under which rape that leads to death of the victim can now attract death penalty is promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee. New Delhi: Pharmaceutical firms conducting clinical trial of drugs in India will no longer be able to get away with meagre and arbitrary payment of compensation in case of injury or death of subjects participating in such trials. Monday New Delhi: In the wake of row over Kamal Hasan's movie "Vishwaroopam", the Centre sets up a judicial committee to have a relook at the Cinematograph Act to make it more robust and ensure that movies do not get stuck after clearances by the film certification board. New Delhi: A Delhi court frames charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and nine others for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case. New Delhi: Asserting that none of the Justice Verma Committee recommendations have been rejected, the government says, the ordinance on sexual violence against women was promulgated to meet the "universal demand" for a law at the earlier based on the broadest consensus available at the moment. Tuesday Srinagar: A member of Kashmir's first all-girl rock band has left the Valley for Bangalore after the teenage group was forced to call it quits in the wake of abusive and threatening online posts over which police filed a case and opposition by a Muslim cleric. (MORE)