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Day March 16, 2017

Is Preet Bharara Trying to Tell Us Something?

Cezary Podkul (ProPublica) Fired by President Donald Trump, Preet Bharara left behind a mysterious, thirteen-word message. “By the way, I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like,” he tweeted on Sunday.   Americans are getting used to deciphering… Continue Reading →

Indian Govt Ignores Health Warnings, Lists Injectable Contraceptives For Women #WTFnews

Aradhna Wal | File photo of Union health minister JP Nadda. New Delhi: Despite misgivings of health activists, the central health ministry remains committed to controversial injectable contraceptives for women. Union health minister JP Nadda, while answering questions in the… Continue Reading →

#Aadhaar will make life tough for workers rescued from bonded labour #SayNoToAadhaar

ROLI SRIVASTAVA |  Workers rescued from bonded labour in India will be unable to access compensation because the government has linked the benefit to the Aadhar card. Workers rescued from bonded labour in India will be unable to access compensation… Continue Reading →

Sand Mining Exposé – Reporter Complains of Harassment, Intimidation

Ever since the series came out, Sandhya Ravishankar says she has been harassed by online trolls and on the phone, receiving multiple threats of violence. Sandhya Ravishankar. Courtesy: Facebook/Sandhya Ravishankar New Delhi: Chennai-based senior journalist Sandhya Ravishankar, who published a four-part… Continue Reading →

Dear Modi, from Trump

Indian news TV is doing a terrific job. The coverage to India’s PM? Tremendous Written by Shailaja Bajpai | First, congratulations on your fantastic victory. Fantastic. Yuuuge. Almost as fantastic, yuuuge, amazing, tremendous as my defeat of that nasty woman last year…. Continue Reading →

 Sexual harassment at TVF: Advocate registers complaint with Mumbai Police #Vaw

This week many women, mostly ex-employees of an online video site The viral fever (TVF) had complained on various networking sites as to how they had been sexually victimised by the CEO of the company Arunabh Kumar. HIGHLIGHTS 1 Advocate… Continue Reading →

India – Where All homes in this Maharashtra village are in women’s name

NO POLICE CASE IN THIS  VILLAGE FOR 15 YEARS Bhavika Jain| TNN | HIGHLIGHTS Anandwadi village in Maharashtra is virtually owned by women There are about 165 homes in the village, all of them in the women’s name Some people… Continue Reading →

Posters in Bareilly village ask Muslims to leave #WTFnews

  ADNAN1 ABIDI / REUTERS A Muslim woman waits outside a booth to cast her vote as policemen stand guard at a polling station in Varanasi. BAREILLY: Jianagla, a village 70 km from Bareilly, is in the grip of tension… Continue Reading →

A Hawaii judge has just blocked President Trump’s revised travel ban

Shockingly, Trump is displeased. Updated by Dara [email protected] E Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images A federal judge on Wednesday stopped President Trump’s second attempt to temporarily ban visa holders from several majority-Muslim countries — and nearly all refugees — from entering… Continue Reading →

Why is Modi Sarkar Force-feeding #Aadhaar

Placing conditions on access to food entitlements is not a marker of a welfare state. The recent notification by the government mandating the possession of an Aadhaar number for receiving benefits under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme has created a justifiable… Continue Reading →

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