Category Health Care
New analysis bolsters idea that country’s seemingly low death rate was misleading JAN 2022 BYJON COHEN India, from the earliest days of the pandemic, has reported far fewer COVID-19 deaths than expected given the toll elsewhere—an apparent death “paradox” that some believed was… Continue Reading →
Classroom norms are changing. Where’s the line, and who decides? By Emma Pettit Erica Cope admits it wasn’t a great lesson. In the fall of 2020, Cope, like faculty members across the country, was teaching virtually, from her kitchen table. None… Continue Reading →
Technology used to only deliver our messages. Now it wants to write them for us by understanding our emotions. In May 2021, Twitter, a platform notorious for abuse and hot-headedness, rolled out a “prompts” feature that suggests users think twice… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JANUARY 8, 2022 Dalmau (Rae Bareilly). On the pretext of getting good marks in the Inter examination, the son of a private school manager and a government teacher raped the girl. During this the pregnancy stopped. When the… Continue Reading →
Jessy Skaria In 2021, when the world was focused on the COVID pandemic, Indians were caught in the glare of an additional nemesis — the dreaded “Black Fungus”. The condition struck a chill in our hearts. Images in the media… Continue Reading →
Adivasi human rights defender and environmental activist Hidme Markam has been unjustly lodged in Jagdalpur Central Jail, Chhattisgarh since 9th March, 2021. It would soon be a year of her arbitrary incarceration, without even bail being granted. As a mark of… Continue Reading →
A Mumbai-based woman has moved the Supreme Court against an order passed by the Bombay High Court in 2021 that laid down guidelines to protect the identities of the parties involved in proceedings under the POSH Act. Vidya MumbaiJanuary 6, 2022… Continue Reading →
Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law Claudia Ituarte-Lima The 1972 Stockholm Conference sowed the seeds for the growth of transnational environmental law, with states negotiating… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JANUARY 5, 2022 Sunita Devi, a Dalit woman, secured a job of bhojanmata (caretaker of meals) in Uttrakhand’s Champawat district’s inter-school. However, on 21 December 2021, she was fired alleging a wrongful appointment after upper-caste students refused to… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JANUARY 6, 2022 Many say casteism is not prevalent today. It cannot operate in prominent universities in urban areas. But that is the allusion to pure ignorance, as Edith in the movie “Enola Holmes” said, “Politics doesn’t interest… Continue Reading →