Category environment
Bombay HC directed the release of Bhima Koregaon case accused Surendra Gadling on temporary bail from August 13 to August 21 to attend his mother’s last rites. Image: PTI The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the release of Bhima… Continue Reading →
Upendra Baxi writes: Section 124-A needs to be wholly judicially repealed at the bar of the fundamental human right to free speech Written by Upendra Baxi |Updated: July 31, 2021 8:04:30 amIt is high time to realise that the law of “sedition”… Continue Reading →
– The Morning Context. Akshay Deshmane In early April this year, as most Indians were grappling with the second wave of COVID- 19, the environment ministry quietly announced on its website that it intends to amend the Indian Forest Act, 1927 by… Continue Reading →
The association, which was formed around six months ago, already has a presence in 50 of the state’s 75 districts. A newly formed association of women teachers in UP has launched a campaign seeking three-day ‘period leave’ every month, given… Continue Reading →
ByRushda Fathima Khan Days ahead of Eid ul Adha (Bakrid) in Bengaluru, six cattle were seized from the city’s DJ Halli area, a Muslim-majority locality. A case was filed under the newly introduced Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Ordinance… Continue Reading →
Bezwada Wilson said that instead of revealing data on the manual scavenging deaths, the government was trying to bypass the question NEW DELHI: Bezwada Wilson, who heads the Safai Karamchari Andolan, an NGO working to eliminate manual scavenging, told TOI on Friday… Continue Reading →
JYOTI PUNWANI 29 Jul 2021 For 15 years, these Mumbai contract workers struggled to be treated on par with regular workers and went from success to success, despite arrests and dismissals. Then the State used a law meant to be used… Continue Reading →
Gender equality is achievable and an imperative The Generation Equality Forum in Paris on 30 June-2 July 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action on Women. The 1995 event was a milestone for advancing women’s rights,1 but… Continue Reading →
By Advocate Mohammad Shoaib, Sandeep Pandey* That corruption is rampant in police department is a common experience. However, there is another form of corruption which devastates lives of individuals and their families. It has now emerged as a common phenomenon… Continue Reading →
Francine Falk-AllenJuly 26, 2021 The feeling of separation hurt me; I saw myself as capable, intelligent and equal, and that this odd leg should be a characteristic that was overlooked… Though early childhood polio left me with a conspicuous disability,… Continue Reading →