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Month June 2017

Demolitions in Dharmshala: Not Smart City, We Need Just City!

Does the Dharamshala Smart City have no place for the poor? Are the poor and homeless not a part of the city? Is being a citizen of India not sufficient for homeless to be provided shelter? At the time of… Continue Reading →

Wombs for rent: Indian surrogacy clinic confines women in “terrible conditions” #Vaw

Hyderabad Raid Shows What Happens To Surrogate Mothers Post-delivery Legal and medical aides are provided to the surrogate mothers but much of it remains on paper only. The health conditions of surrogate mothers can deteriorate if they don’t receive timely… Continue Reading →

Not life-saving and complicated, yet womb transplant in demand #medicalethics

Umesh Isalkar & Sumitra Debroy| TNN |  Not life-saving and complicated, yet womb transplant in demand The success of the country’s first two uterine transplants in Pune last month has prompted many more women to queue up for it. At… Continue Reading →

Ballabgarh train lynching: Accused admits of making ‘beef eater’ jibes at Muslim youths

In a major development in Ballabhgarh lynching case, an accused has admitted that his friends made remarks about the four Muslim youths being beef eaters. The accused who was arrested by the police on Saturday confessed the same to TV… Continue Reading →

#SundayReading – 1993 Mumbai blasts –  When Justice is a Fading Light

Indulekha Aravind Twenty-four years after Mumbai was shattered first by riots and then the bomb blasts, there seems to be no closure for the survivors of either At an anti-terror court in Mumbai set up un der the Terrorists and… Continue Reading →

Indian nurse from Karnataka trafficked and pushed into slavery in Saudi Arabia #Vaw

HYDERABAD: A kafil in Saudi Arabia is holding Jacintha Mendonca – an Indian nurse from Karnataka – to ransom and is demanding 24,000 Saudi Riyals (Rs 4.32 lakh) to let her go free; even as the agent in Mangalore who illegally trafficked her to… Continue Reading →

India Better Than Only Pakistan Among 19 Neighbours In Improving Health Access

Vipul Vivek,Indiaspend.com   India did better only than Pakistan over 15 years to 2015 among 19 countries in South and Southeast Asia (including China) by potential and actual healthcare access and quality.   The second largest and the fastest growing… Continue Reading →

Shashi Tharoor Says BJP Renamed 23 Congress Schemes. He’s Right About 19

by Vipul Vivek   On June 15, 2017, Congress member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor claimed that 23 of the BJP-led government’s new programmes were merely renamed versions of schemes launched by the previous governments led by his party.   View… Continue Reading →

Indian Workers Association (Great Britain) demand Release of Bhim Army Leader Chandrashekar ‘Ravan’ Azad

‘Immediately Release Bhim Army Leader Chandrashekar ‘Ravan’ Azad, Unconditionally’ Statement by Indian Workers Association(Great Britain) Chandrashekar Azad, one of the leader and founder of the Bhim Army in UP, was arrested from Himachal Pardesh on Thursday 8th June. He has… Continue Reading →

MP- Tubectomy done on a woman post delivery without information #WTFnews

Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh Aarti Gupta wife of Pradip Gupta was admitted to the District hospital for delivery on 13th June where she had a cesarean and gave birth to a boy. However, on the next day while completing discharge formalities… Continue Reading →

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