Day May 4, 2020
Analysing Kerala’s Response The COVID-19 pandemic has been a test of the Indian state’s capacity to deal with the repercussions of a public health crisis. Kerala’s success, as it continues to draw strength from its political culture of participatory governance and… Continue Reading →
About 1, 100 from all over India – organisations and individuals across religion, class, caste, ethnicity, ability, sexuality and genders – have issued a solidarity statement condemning what they have called “the targeted crackdown on Muslims and women activists in… Continue Reading →
May 3, 2020 This is a letter from Sameeya Zargar to her sister Safoora, currently lodged in Tihar Jail. Safoora, media coordinator of the Jamia Coordination Committee, has been charged under the draconian anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)…. Continue Reading →
The PMO also cited a Central Information Commission order dated 2009 that the application contains a mutliplicity of requests on varied subjects. By Richa SharmaExpress News Service NEW DELHI: A Right to Information (RTI) application seeking details about the donors to… Continue Reading →
12 due to coronavirus but 580 deaths in April is double the number last year, govt to randomly test next of kin. by ZEESHAN SHAIKH | Malegaon, Mumbai | Updated: May 4, 2020 Nine bodies were brought to Malegaon’s biggest burial ground in… Continue Reading →
Pradeepan Ravi, Cividep India The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have cast shadows over the lives and livelihoods of millions of workers in India. In the leather manufacturing sector, both factory workers and homeworkers have been out of work… Continue Reading →
SOURYA MAJUMDER03 May 2020 The rights that migrant workers are entitled to, in accordance with the law, seldom make it to public discourse. This neglect of the legal framework for hiring migrant workers, at times, creates an illusion that the… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court also wants to reduce the Covid-19 risks posed by overcrowded jails, but there is little progress so far. Subhash Gatade Late in March, Sirous Asgari, a materials science and engineering professor from Iran, who is at present… Continue Reading →
Prachi Salve May 3, 2020 Mumbai: A team of doctors, health workers and revenue officials who had gone to identify the family members of a 65-year-old man who died of COVID-19 were attacked in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on April 2, after fake videos claimed… Continue Reading →
Rachel Clarke All the government’s praise for health ‘heroes’ is a distraction from its abject failure to protect those at the Covid frontline @doctor_oxford Sat 2 May 2020 17.05 BSTLast modified on Sat 2 May 2020 20.55 BST Shares28,219 Nothing these days is more… Continue Reading →