Month March 2018
How Workers Die Five workers in Sonepat, Haryana, burnt to death, including a woman worker with her child on her chest. Sixteen jumped from the third floor to various serious injuries. But nothing appears in the news. This is not… Continue Reading →
Equality Labs is proud to release our report Caste in the United States. This report came out of a community driven survey conducted in 2016 and has now emerged as a crucial document that both presents the first evidence of… Continue Reading →
Brutality on JNU march New Delhi: Around 6.15pm on Friday, two reporters from a national English newspaper and news agency PTI were covering a march by JNU students and teachers to Parliament to press for several demands, including… Continue Reading →
Contrary to all claims from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Aadhaar number of several people continue to leak on the internet from government websites. In fact, even the… Continue Reading →
Prateek Goyal Pune: It was in Class IX when Ramesh Salunkhe (name changed for safety reasons) went to a barber’s shop where he was made to realise that his caste limited his entry to many public places. Ten years later,… Continue Reading →
Umesh Isalkar| TNN | PUNE: The civic body’s health department on Friday ordered an inquiry into the alleged medical negligence that led to the death of a pregnant woman late on Thursday night. The 20-year-old woman, a resident of Vishrantwadi, had an… Continue Reading →
Exclusive: The data leak affects potentially every Indian citizen subscribed to the database. By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | Another data leak hits India’s national identity database, Aadhaar. (Image: file photo) India’s national ID database has been hit by yet another major security… Continue Reading →
The global shakedown has led to considerations of the potential cost of not integrating gender into investment decision making The use of finance as a strong tool for social change is not a new practice—the success of the microfinance… Continue Reading →
by Guy Standing Guy Standing It is intellectually excusable for those on the political right to want to restrict the meaning of work to labour, or income-earning activity. It is inexcusable for those on the political left to do so. Social… Continue Reading →
Latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data shows reported crimes against SCs increased by 5.5 per cent in 2016 while crimes against STs has increased by 4.7 per cent. Delhi: At a time when cases of atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis… Continue Reading →