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Month April 2017

India – When a “womel” replaced a “manel” #GenderEquality

By – Kalpana Sharma If all-male panels are called “manels”, what should we call an all-woman panel?  Womels?  People, meaning even well-intentioned men, get irritated when women remind them that it is possible to attempt some kind of gender balance… Continue Reading →

Love kills six times more Indians than terror attacks

Atul Thakur| HIGHLIGHTS Between 2001 and 2015, love was the officially recorded reason for 38,585 murders and culpable homicide cases. Terror, on the other hand, killed 20,000 people, including civilians and security forces, in the same period. In suicides, West… Continue Reading →

India – Protest – No Bank Transaction day on April 6

    In the wake of recent announcement by State Bank of India (SBI) to increase the minimum balance in savings account from April, fuming customers have planned a No Transaction Day on April 06, 2017. This protest would manifest… Continue Reading →

Poor public health services are pitting doctors and patients against each other

Drawing Blood   (Source: Express Graphic by Pradeep Yadav)   Doctors are under siege; patients are aggrieved. This is essentially what is being played out in public hospitals, most recently in Maharashtra where last month, in five separate incidents, doctors… Continue Reading →

Adani Carmichael coal mine – The worst mistake Australia could make

Charis Changnews.com.au Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk gets confronted in India over Adani mine plans Charis Changnews.com.au@CharisChang2 SOON Australians will be asked to take sides as the opposition to the Adani coal mine reaches a crucial crunch point. The owners of… Continue Reading →

Anti-Romeo squad comes under ‘scanner’ for tonsuring alleged molester’s head

Anti-romeo squad officers tonsured a man’s head for allegedly molesting a woman in Uttar Pradesh‘s Shahjahanpu   Lucknow, April 1: A day after new dos and don’ts for Uttar Pradesh‘s anti-Romeo squads were issued by the state’s police chief, officers… Continue Reading →

Madhya Pradesh government shunts out Bhind DM, SP after EVM row

. HIGHLIGHTS Madhya Pradesh government removed the district collector and the SP and initiated action against 19 others in EVM row Kejriwal met chief election commissioner earlier in the day and demanded that paper ballot enabled EVMs be used for… Continue Reading →

Five BJP-led states turn heat on illegal abattoirs

Dogs roam a slaughter house which has been shut due to strike protesting the closure of slaughterhouses  BENGALURU: Hardline Hindu organisations in Bengaluru are trying to enforce vegetarianism even as five BJP-ruled states — Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Madhya… Continue Reading →

Ban all slaughter-houses across India, says Dharma Sansad resolution in Jaipur #WTFnews

  The crackdown against illegal slaughterhouses had been first launched as soon as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took over in Uttar Pradesh By: FE Online | The crackdown against illegal slaughterhouses had been first launched as soon as the… Continue Reading →

After UP, Madhya Pradesh to Have #AntiRomeo Squads, mulls bill to hang rapists #WTFnews

  File image of Shivraj Singh Chouhan. (File photo: AFP)   Bhopal: Demanding capital punishment for the rapists, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday announced that a campaign, similar to that of anti-Romeo squads in Uttar Pradesh,… Continue Reading →

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