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Month December 2017

India – Ministry of Women and Child development cautions public against filling up fake forms

The Women and Child Development Ministry has once again cautioned general public against filling up fake forms in name of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. In a statement, the Ministry said, since the beginning of the year, it has been receiving… Continue Reading →

AP-IIT student ends life as father waits at gate to meet him

STAFF REPORTER NUZVID (KRISHNA) , DECEMBER 22, 2017 01:35 IST A file photo of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Nuzvid. He secured first class marks in the recent semester, says institution A third-year engineering student of the Rajiv… Continue Reading →

India – Poor social indicators must make Gujarat rethink its growth model

Shockingly, the state’s infant mortality rate is worse than Jharkhand; it also has the fourth lowest teacher student ratio in the country    Handbook of Statistics on Indian States by the Reserve Bank of India reveals the dark underbelly of… Continue Reading →

Pune: Domestic helps protest against compulsory linking of Aadhaar, PAN

A press release issued after the protest stated that it was withdrawn after the Labour Commissionerate assured action against the ‘erring officials’ By: Express News Service |HUNDREDS OF domestic helps from different parts of the city held a protest outside the office… Continue Reading →

Why Gulzar wrote a Partition novel for our times

It would take centuries to tear us apart in ways that we don’t grow together. CHINKI SINHA “She doesn’t understand one may cut the mountain into two, but people? It’s a hard task, Bhai to cut one people into two…. Continue Reading →

India – Why high-profile events by news organisations can damage journalistic independence

By HARTOSH SINGH BAL |  GURINDER OSAN / HINDUSTAN TIMES / GETTY IMAGES HT Media owner Shobhana Bhartia had a personal meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi before announcing the abrupt exit of the editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times, Bobby Ghosh. Over… Continue Reading →

India – From Apollo Kolkata to Max Delhi, citizens suffer as healthcare regulation falters

 Revathi Siva Kumar  Pic: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 It has been a year of discontent in the medical sector with patients losing patience, doctors threatening to go on strike and governments resorting to thrust-and-parry. At different points in time throughout… Continue Reading →

Human Rights Lawyer Alka Pradhan v. Guantánamo Bay #mustread

The human rights lawyer thinks she has a good defense for her client, one of five accused Sept. 11 plotters imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay — if the government ever actually lets the case go to trial. By JEFFREY E. STERN DECEMBER 19, 2017… Continue Reading →

Bihar – Opposition RJD leader shot dead in Samastipur

IANS   Hareram Yadav, 50, was out on his morning walk when motorcycle-borne men shot him dead in Bihar’s Samastipur district An Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader in Bihar was shot dead on Friday by unidentified assailants, police said…. Continue Reading →

Bloomberg exposes Facebook’s role in ‘The Narendra Modi Project’

How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism. By Lauren Etter , Vernon Silver , and Sarah Frier Under fire for Facebook Inc.’s role as a platform for political propaganda,… Continue Reading →

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