Category environment
by- Prabhjit Singh On 26 June, around 25,000 farmers marched into the bureaucratic area of Chandigarh to submit a memorandum to the governors of Punjab and Haryana. The memorandum said that the 2020 farm laws need to repealed, as farmers… Continue Reading →
The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months… Continue Reading →
By – Europa Doley and Sania Muzamil “But we’ll still sing in Chorus A Caged Bird still can sing” On 8th October 2020, Father Stan Swamy, a Tribal Rights activist and a Jesuit priest from Jamshedpur, was arrested by the… Continue Reading →
Mumbai: Ten accused in the Elgaar Parishad-Maoist links case went on a one-day hunger strike in the Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai on Wednesday to protest against what they termed as an “institutional murder” of co-accused Jesuit priest Stan… Continue Reading →
July 4, 2021- Shaeema Zaman Ahmed, a youngster from Guwahati, brought laurels to Assam and India for her visionary work on quantum physics research, for which she was awarded the PhD from Aarhus University, in Denmark, on June 28. After… Continue Reading →
By Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu KAMPALA, Jun 30 2021 (IPS) – At Mulago, Uganda’s biggest public hospital, a receptionist at an HIV clinic for marginalised and ‘most at risk’ populations, including LGBT people, said that an undercover reporter’s 17-year-old gay brother could “quit”… Continue Reading →
Who was Stan Swamy, arrested in the Elgar Parishad case, who passed away on Monday? Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case: Stan Swamy was an 83-year-old Jesuit priest who has worked for the welfare of tribals in Jharkhand for more than 30… Continue Reading →
By Vaidehi Gautam The nature of responsibilities that have been bestowed upon sanitation workers is widely known and so is the stigmatisation they face due to it. Ever since the pandemic broke out, this stigmatisation not only increased but also… Continue Reading →
The Lakshadweep administration is justifying eviction orders issued to islanders on the ground that the houses have been constructed without having a ‘diversion certificate’ as mandated by a 1965 Act by- Shahina KK6:30 AM, 2 July, 2021102 natives of Kavaratti… Continue Reading →
In the significant orders passed on 29.06.21, the Supreme Court has directed Central and State governments to address the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 on working households in India. The Court had taken suo moto cognizance of the… Continue Reading →