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Month August 2017

How Solar-Powered Health Centres Could Transform Indian Healthcare

Chaitanya Mallapur,   More than 50% more patients were admitted and almost twice the number of babies were delivered in a month in solar-powered primary health centres (PHC)s in Chhattisgarh, compared to those without a solar system, said a new… Continue Reading →

American Outcastes: Dalit community faces prejudice of Indian-Americans

By Suman Guha Mozumder Jaspreet Mahal faced vehement opposition in her native Haryana when she decided to break a taboo: Born into a Sikh family, she married outside her community into the lowest strata in India’s rigid caste hierarchy. Her… Continue Reading →

Landmark UN-Backed Treaty on Mercury Takes Effect

16 Aug 2017 – A ground-breaking global convention on mercury today goes into effect, the United Nations environment wing said, protecting millions of children and infants from possible neurological and health damage. “Governments that are party to the Convention are now… Continue Reading →

The #RightToPrivacy Judgement and it Implications for #Aadhaar

I The verdict has altered unrecognisably the idea of state power. It is against this altered standard that the court will test the privacy violations of the UID project. By USHA RAMANATHAN THE NINE-JUDGE BENCH OF THE SUPREME Court has… Continue Reading →

Swami Nithyananda Case: Will Justice Prevail? Fast Track the case

The case against Nithyananda is currently pending for trial at the Ramanagara sessions court. Prudhviraj Rupawat Although Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was sentenced to 20 years of jail term after being convicted of raping two of his disciples, it shouldn’t… Continue Reading →

Raghuram Rajan Blasts Populist Nationalism, Says it’s First Step to Crony Capitalism

Rajan talked about how the financial crisis pushed the middle-class worker to the tipping point and led to the rise of populists like Donald Trump. File photo of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan. (Reuters) New Delhi: Former Governor of the Reserve Bank… Continue Reading →

The gap between India’s richer and poorer states is widening

Economists are baffled, arguing that the poorer states should be catching up COUNTRIES find it easier to get rich once their neighbours already are. East Asia’s growth pattern has for decades been likened to a skein of geese, from Japan… Continue Reading →

India – BJP has highest no. of MPs, MLAs with cases of crime against women #Vaw

BJP is followed by the Shiv Sena and Trinamool Congress on the list. Among the states, Maharashtra has the highest number of MPs and MLAs who have declared cases of crime against women. BJP party flag in Pune, India, on… Continue Reading →

Delhi high court to hear plea to criminalise #MaritalRape #GoodNews

Govt’s stance on marital rape an affront to all women, say activists There’s an exception in IPC Section 375 (offence of rape) that doesn’t recognise sex without consent, with a wife older than 15 years, as rape. The Delhi High… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – 34 Dead, At Least 47 injured as Building Collapses #BhendiBazar

    Mumbai Building Collapse Live: 34 Dead, PM Modi Offers Condolences A five-storey residential building collapsed in Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar area on 31 August, killing 34 people and injuring at least 47 others. Many are still feared trapped under the rubble…. Continue Reading →

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