Month July 2018
The Modi government’s hiking of the minimum support price for kharif crops pays lip service to farmers’ distress. In India, the agricultural minimum support price (MSP) has been frequently used as an electoral tool to win votes. The MSP hike… Continue Reading →
Rohit Kumar Singh Muzaffarpur HIGHLIGHTS Epilepsy drugs were injected in girls before they were raped Shelter’s women staff would also sexually abuse the girls Shelter home’s owner would brutally thrash the girls, kick them in their private parts Many skeletons… Continue Reading →
Alternative legal redress systems are needed and welcome. But, as debate in the UK has shown, sharia councils are the preserves of clerics who are intolerant of women’s equality and rights. Written by Javed Anand | Justice from India’s courts of law… Continue Reading →
Neeraj Chauhan| TNN NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to Bihargovernment over reported sexual exploitation of girls inside a shelter home in Muzaffarpur. There were 44 girls living in the home run by an NGO under the supervision of the… Continue Reading →
Dr Anupam Saraph A 213-page report and 62 page Personal Data Protection Bill are the result of the Srikrishna Committee commissioned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on 31 July 2017. What does this mean for the citizens of India? The… Continue Reading →
After declaring four million people ‘illegal’, Al Jazeera takes a closer look at controversial draft citizenship list. Critics say the move to strip the citizenship of Bengali origin people is similar to Myanmar’s removal of rights and protections for its… Continue Reading →
by-ShabnamHashmi Just now spoke to senior theatre and film director of Budhan theatre Dakxin Chara and a number of other activists According to the information available : There was some altercation between a few chara boys who were drunk at… Continue Reading →
“Unless we don’t improve in key areas, the pace of growth in some of these states will be very slow,” Amitabh Kant said. Amitabh Kant’s comments came while addressing a session. (File) NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Tuesday… Continue Reading →
Shreehari Paliath, Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or a political alliance it is a part of, governs 18 of 29 states in India, home to nearly 63% of the country’s population. But only one BJP-ruled state, Himachal Pradesh, made it to… Continue Reading →
Inside the surveillance state By Gopal Sathe AP Security cameras are mounted on the side of a building overlooking an intersection in midtown Manhattan. In the background is a billboard of a human eye. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) VIJAYAWADA, Andhra Pradesh… Continue Reading →