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Do you know Kadambini Ganguly : One of India’s First Women Graduates & Doctors- A symbol of women’s liberation

Kadambini Ganguly was the first female practitioner of Western medicine in India, the first female to gain admission in Calcutta Medical College, and she bagged the top spot as the first female to achieve various other monumental goals. Breaking barriers… Continue Reading →

An urban forest in Jaipur set to make way for a Fintech Park; protesting citizens launch ‘Dol Ka Badh Bachao’ movement

The 40-hectare green wooded area in the heart of Jaipur, Rajasthan, awaits its demise as the Rajasthan government proposes to clear the land to set up a fintech park for chartered accountants and IT professionals. Outraged environmentalists and citizens say… Continue Reading →

Wipe Out Sedition From The Penal Book Completely

Colin Gonsalves Two recent decisions of the Supreme Court—first, -issuing notice on a petition asking for Section 124A -(sedition) of the Indian Penal Code to be declared entirely unconstitutional, and the other of quashing the -prosecution of journalist Vinod Dua… Continue Reading →

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui Is Killed In Afghanistan

Reuters said Siddiqui had been embedded as a journalist earlier this week with Afghan Special Forces based out of Kandahar and “had been reporting on fighting between Afghan commandos and Taliban fighters”. Written by Dipankar Ghose , Aranya Shankar | New Delhi |Updated: July… Continue Reading →

Between a Rock and a Hard Place : Lakshadweep Locals set to Fight Tourism Plans

By Seema Sharma / July 16, 2021 Residents and environmentalists want administration to consider ecology, existing climate change impacts before undertaking development in the region Lakshadweep is on the boil these days. The cause of mass resentment are the newly introduced draft laws–the… Continue Reading →

MP: State Forest Officials Beat Up Adivasis, Destroy their Houses and fields

The officials illegally destroyed the houses and ran JCBs all over the agricultural farms and spraying chemicals on the crops, thus ruining their livelihood. .By :Aparna Sanjay |July 15, 2021  On the morning of July 10, a series of violent… Continue Reading →

Sundori Of Sundarban: How Climate Change Got A Girl Trafficked, Rescued & Killed

The climate crisis leads to hundreds from the Sundarbans being trafficked. But once rescued, survival is a struggle.ISHADRITA LAHIRIDEBAYAN DUTTA 15 Jul 2021 All that is left of 16-year-old Protima Jana’s* clay hut, are a collapsed pile of bamboo sticks that… Continue Reading →

In Goa, the Water Runs Black

Locals near one of India’s coal-importing ports feel the effects of coal dust and are bracing for an even unhealthier future. by Disha ShettyJuly 13, 2021 | This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. In February this year, there… Continue Reading →

SC asks retd army officer challenging sedition law to serve petition copy to AG

THE Supreme Court Wednesday asked S.G. Vombatkere, the petitioner, who has challenged the constitutional validity of Section 124A[Sedition] of the Indian Penal Code(IPC) to serve a copy of his petition to the Attorney General of India(AGI). A bench led by… Continue Reading →

Stan Swamy – declared a saint by the Adivasis, Dalits and Shudras

Stan Swamy has saved India by his death. The world has come to know how the Indian regime could crucify one who worked for the most oppressed. Our constitutional democracy obviously has not changed the hearts of those who don’t… Continue Reading →

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