Month April 2017
AKASH BISHT| (Akash Bisht/Catch News) 0 SHARES 0 SHARES 0 COMMENTS It is 2 pm at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and there is no relief from the scorching sun. Yet Kapoor Singh remained unfazed by the unrelenting heat that had… Continue Reading →
“Pichle 15 salon main kuch nahi hua, leking agar koi karta hai toh usko latka denge,” the Chief Minister said while speaking to some reporters OUTLOOK WEB BUREAU FILE PHOTO Amidst a crackdown on slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh Chief… Continue Reading →
His youth lost behind bars, who will give Satyam Babu his life back, his sister asks Satyam Babu spent eight years in jail, for a crime he didn’t commit. Nitin B. × The Hyderabad High Court on Friday acquitted P… Continue Reading →
Image copyrightANKIT SRINIVASImage captionShakeel Ahmad has been selling meat since the 1970s and knows no other way of making a living The government’s crackdown on meat shops in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has left many traders and… Continue Reading →
The National Health Policy 2017 emphasises the need to involve the private sector. The only compromise with the 2015 draft is that primary healthcare may remain largely in the public domain. RAVI DUGGAL | Save for the 1980s, governments have… Continue Reading →
By Unofficial Sususwamy The debate over Aadhaar card refuses to die. With private companies like Reliance using it to give out Jio SIM cards, many have this constant fear regarding their personal details being leaked over to a third party,… Continue Reading →
Payaswini Upadhyay Violation of fundamental rights of equality and privacy, introduction and passing of the Aadhaar Act as a money bill and the collection of biometric data by private entities – these are some grounds for the many pending litigations… Continue Reading →
By – Kavita Krishnan Misogyny makes for strange partnerships indeed. This time, the Mahmood Farooqui defence (headed by Sr Adv.Kapil Sibal) has teamed up with Madhu Kishwar to challenge the rape law amendments of 2013 (amendments that were okayed by… Continue Reading →
By Pratik Sinha – A team of human rights activists and social activists from various organisations based out of Ahmedabad such as Jan Sangharsh Manch, HRLN, Jan Vikas, Action Aid, Aman Biradri etc visited the Vadavali village to take stock… Continue Reading →
A deeper dive is needed to draw insights from the low prevalence of farmer suicides in Bihar than in more developed regions of India such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh Sanjiv Phansalkar Despairing farmers driven to suicide has… Continue Reading →