Day July 18, 2016
The Supreme Court is set to hear a crucial application for the recall of 12 prosecution witnesses on July 18. Image credit: Anumeha Yadav Anumeha Yadav at scroll.in At 8 am on a rainy Thursday, Ram Niwas waited on a bench… Continue Reading →
Dr. Bansal is not manipulating a cadaver, which means the patients are not quite dead: ICMR DG Despite ethical and regulatory concerns being raised over a clinical trial to ‘revive’ brain-dead patients, the study’s principal investigator Dr. Himanshu Bansal has… Continue Reading →
Pragya Bhagat ASSOCIATED PRESS Watch the video below. All 18 minutes and 58 seconds of it. It is not as eloquent as a TED talk. It is not as short as a BuzzFeed clip. It is not a social experiment… Continue Reading →
By featuring in the ad, the Bollywood star has undermined and trivialised the seriousness of her own mental condition. PALASH KRISHNA MEHROTRA Depression is big business in America. One in eight Americans are on Prozac. Even the pets have not… Continue Reading →
Jayati Ghosh Hardworking women in India care for family members, cook, clean, garden, sew and farm without getting paid. When will official statistics recognise this? In 1999-2000, 35% of rural women were working, by 2011-12, after a period of rapid… Continue Reading →
Why India’s middle class can afford to ignore our three conflicts — Jammu & Kashmir, the Adivasi belt of central India, and the tribal belt of North East India. AAKAR PATEL FILE – AP PHOTO/DAR YASIN India has three large… Continue Reading →
Piyush Sethia’s bail application was dismissed on 14 July, after police opposed bail citing several cases including sedition against him Preeti Zachariah Piyush Sethia, convener, Salem Citizen’s Forum. Photo: RG Sasthaa/Mint New Delhi: Environmental activist Piyush Sethia who was arrested on… Continue Reading →
WHAT’S WORSE THAN KASHMIR? By Jyoti Punwani, Bastar is worse than Kashmir. I’ve given up hope. A place where the IG of police calls meetings of judges and magistrates, of newspaper proprietors, and of IAS officers; where lawyers are hounded for… Continue Reading →