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‘The wrong person had to spend a banvaas of 14 years on a wrong charge.’Jyoti Punwani reports. In December 2007, the Uttarakhand police charged former journalist and activist Prashant Rahi with sedition, waging war against the State, conspiracy, and for… Continue Reading →
The Centre argues criminalising marital rape will destabilise the institution of marriage The petitions before the Delhi High Court asking for marital rape to be criminalised are an outcome of the government’s refusal to pay heed to the landmark report… Continue Reading →
Child mortality rates in several Indian states is similar to that of strife-torn countries ByNushaiba Iqbal|11 Jan, 2022 Noida: Nearly 60 of every 1,000 children born in Uttar Pradesh die before their fifth birthday, almost as many as in Afghanistan, according… Continue Reading →
The bench, while hearing a batch of petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape, also asked, “Just because she is married, does she lose her right to say ‘no’?” The Delhi High Court on Tuesday wondered how the dignity of a… Continue Reading →
Saibaba, who has over 90% physical disabilities, had tested positive for COVID-19 in February last year as well 11 Jan 2022, i Former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, serving a life term in Nagpur Central Jail for his alleged connection with… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JANUARY 11, 2022 Meerut: As west Uttar Pradesh (UP) is preparing to go to the polls in the first phase, several Dalit activists and political analysts say the repercussions of several past incidents of violence against the community… Continue Reading →
By Urvashi Sarkar | Indian Prime Minister Modi addresses the crew of INS Arihant. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office. Copyrighted work of the Government of India, licensed under the Government Open Data License – India (GODL). In 2016, India inducted its… Continue Reading →
Women of villages affected by JSW’s steel project in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district are unequivocal in their opposition By Priya Ranjan Sahu Published: Saturday 08 January 2022 On the road to Dhinkia, a coastal village full of greenery near the port of Paradip… Continue Reading →
January 8, 2022 1 Author Aram GoudsouzianBizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Their guest, he… Continue Reading →
By Harsh Thakor* The farmers’ spirit, elevated and reverberated at a boiling point in Ferozpur like a spark turning into a prairie fire, appears to be behind Prime Minister Narinder Modi having being compelled to retreat to Delhi due to a… Continue Reading →