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The Uttarakhand High Court passed an order denying maternity leave to women in government jobs in case they have a third child. In an order dated September 17, Chief Justice Ramesh Rangnathan and Justice Alok Kumar Verma of the Uttarakhand High Court quashed an earlier order by a single bench. The double bench of the High Court overruled the single bench order accepting the contention of the state government, which had challenged the single bench order issued by Justice Rajeev Sharma in July 2018. The single bench order had been delivered on a PIL filed by Haldwani-based nurse Urmila Masih challenging a government rule not to provide maternity leave to women in case of a third child. Masih had said that the government's rule to not provide maternity benefits in case of a third child violates Article 42 of the Constitution of India and Section 27 of the Maternity Benefit Act. The government challenged the order of the single bench by filing a special appeal and contending that the petitioner could not claim benefits of the maternity act as she already had two children and could not be granted maternity leave for her third child in consonance with the "second provision of the fundamental rule 153". On this edition of the big picture we will analyse the norms of having a third child.

Guests - Rekha Agarwal, Advocate, Supreme Court, Sushmi Dey, Assistant Editor, National Bureau, Times of India, Yogita Bayana, Women and Child Rights Activist,

Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

Producer - Sagheer Ahmad

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave a clarion call for a "global people's movement" to bring about a behavioral change to deal with climate change as he made a path-breaking pledge to more than double India's non-fossil fuel target to 450 gigawatts. It comes a day after Prime Minister Modi and US President Donald Trump shared the stage at a gala event in Houston on Sunday and displayed a close friendship and a common vision on fighting terrorism. But the US and India differ on the issue of climate change. Trump withdrew from the Paris climate deal in 2017 and blamed India and China for his decision, saying the agreement was unfair as it would have made the US pay for nations which benefited the most from the deal. Meanwhile, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg had one question for the global leaders assembled at the United Nations: "How dare you?" On this edition of the big picture we will analyse the climate crisis and the way forward.

Guests - Nitin Desai, Chairman, The Energy and Resources Institute, Shyamli Singh, Asst. Professor, Centre for Environment And Climate Change, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Sandip Sen, Senior Journalist & Author,

Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

Producer - Sagheer Ahmad