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Month June 2017

Janani Suraksha Yojana: Over 60% would-be moms in Chandigarh miss cash benefits, says study

  JSY is a centrally sponsored scheme that aims at reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among poor and pregnant women. Under the scheme, women are given cash assistance between Rs 600 to Rs 1400 for delivery… Continue Reading →

Weeping Salandi -A PUCL Report on Communal Violence in Bhadrak, Odisha

                Odisha Introduction     On 6th of April, 2017, a day after Ramnavmi celebrations, the evening bulletins of electronic media broke the news of communal tension in the municipal town of Bhadrak,… Continue Reading →

India – Children need global help #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour

  Kailash Satyarthi i As the global community gears up to commemorate this day as World Day Against Child Labour, my memories go back 19 years to those electrifying few months in 1998. That was when our movement for child… Continue Reading →

GST Council ignores tax-cut call for sanitary pads, revises for 66 others #WTFnews

For every woman to whom a sanitary napkin is available in a variety of sizes there are nearly 11 women who save old rags, newspapers and wood shavings to get through menstruation every month.  Source: IANS Key Highlights Rates have been… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra – A Food Strike, Not Hunger

  Post-UP loan waiver, Maharashtra farmers demand their due, and are refusing to budge until they get it PRACHI PINGLAY-PLUMBER DEAD END Agitating farmers block a road in Solapur, Maharashtra PHOTOGRAPH BY PTI Prin Old farmer: “We should also go… Continue Reading →

India – Corporate-Political Nexus Works to Kill Dissent

HUMA HASAN The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. George Orwell As the country celebrates three years of the NDA government, certain hard questions need to be asked(questioning though is… Continue Reading →

BANNED screening of films on Rohith Vemula, JNU,  Kashmir Valley

The festival, which begins on June 16, is organised by the Kerala State Chalachithra Academy, a body under the state government’s Department of Cultural Affairs.  by Shaju Philip | Thiruvananthapuram | Rohith Vemula committed suicide on January 17.The union Ministry… Continue Reading →

The Patriarchal Line Up For Press Freedom

SEEMA MUSTAFA NEW DELHI: It was a large, and hence reassuring turn out at the Press Club of India in support of press freedom. The issue, of course was narrowed almost entirely to the CBI raids on NDTV with former… Continue Reading →

Jesus Christ compared to devil in Gujarat text book #WTFnews

 Board claims “printing mistake”  Agencies Ahmedabad: A blunder in a Class IX Hindi language textbook published by the Gujarat board, that compares Jesus Christ to “haivaan” (devil) has caused massive outrage amongst the Christian community. Left embarrassed, officials of the… Continue Reading →

 10 things Hindu groups in Goa discuss to drag India to Hindu Rashtra

Approximately 150 Hindu outfits will meet in Goa from June 14 to17 for a convention to chalk out a programme for establishing a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ in India by 2023. The conclave is being organised by the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS),… Continue Reading →

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