Category environment
SHIMLA: Observing that pregnant women need bail, not jail, the Himachal Pradesh high court allowed on Saturday the petition of a pregnant woman accused in a Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case. Justice Anoop Chitkara also said that temporary bail… Continue Reading →
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, welcomed the adoption by the General Assembly on 21 July of resolution A/75/L.115 on “Promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech”. The resolution… Continue Reading →
As activist Sudha Bharadwaj’s health deteriorates inside prison, her friends and family speak to Outlook about her incarceration and work among the tribals in Chhattisgarh. Activist Sudha Bharadwaj was arrested in 2018 in connection with the Elgar Parishad Maoist links… Continue Reading →
Offensive cyberware is big business in Israel Half a million dollars (over 3.5 crore rupees) in installation fees. $650,000 (almost 5 crore rupees) to spy on just 10 Android or iPhone users. And hundreds of thousands dollars more for additional… Continue Reading →
The genre offers amazing scope for subversion, and for women to reclaim the contested site of their own bodies, writes Rosalyn D’Mello. by- Rosalyn D’Mello Let’s stop mistaking smut for erotica, and let’s stop debating whether erotica is pornography. As… Continue Reading →
Friday, July 23, 2021 By Debarun Dutta Nearly two lakh tribal workers migrate every year from districts of Dang and Tapi in Gujarat and Nandurbar and Dhule in Maharashtra to harvest sugarcane in farms of South Gujarat. The workers are… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI, Jul 16 2021 (IPS) – Ongoing online sexual harassment of Muslim women through ‘Sulli Deals’, an auctioning app hosted by GitHub, has been reported to the authorities – but not before it called untold trauma to the targeted women…. Continue Reading →
Panel Hears Affected Communities, Environmentalists, Activists & Media Testimonies: Detailed Findings to be published soon 20th July, 2021: This public hearing was organised to hear the affected citizens of Khorigaon and understand the status of implementation of the Supreme Court’s order of… Continue Reading →
Erendro Leichombam was detained on May 13 under NSA over a Facebook post in which he said that cow dung or cow urine will not cure Covid-19. SC orders immediate release of Manipuri activist Leichombam Erendro, detained under NSA over… Continue Reading →
Punjab Women Collective, expresses deep concern over incidents surrounding the around young adult Kashmiri Sikh women who married Muslim men, and often converted to Islam, after exercising their own free will in choosing their partners. However, they are being portrayed… Continue Reading →