r (Edit: This essay is about whether Aadhaar can be linked to a governmental benefit scheme, and justified on the ground that beneficiaries make a free choice to give up their right to privacy in order to access benefits. The… Continue Reading →
Sudha Bharadwaj Chhattisgarh Mahila Adhikar Manch, a platform of womens organisations in Chhattisgarh, had organised a one day dharna at Ambikapur on 5th October to protest that even after the Judicial Enquiry Commission’s Report, and an FIR… Continue Reading →
The Law Commission of India in its “Report No.262: The Death Penalty” of August 2015 recommended that “the death penalty be abolished for all crimes other than terrorism related offences and waging war. Although there is no valid penological justification… Continue Reading →
The attempt is to make everyone conform to one body of information, that, inevitably, will be dictated by those who are without specialised knowledge – politicians and bureaucrats. Romila Thapar · The other source of information for society or the public… Continue Reading →
The following is an excerpt from Gandhi’s prayer discourse of July 25, 1947, from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 88, as published online by the Gandhi Heritage Portal. Today is Gandhi Jayanti and The Wire is publishing it in the… Continue Reading →
The Shariah adalat run by BMMA works to clear a little space for women in the implementation of the Muslim personal law, and ensure that their voice is heard. Written by Dipti Nagpaul | Nasira Sheikh at her parents’ home in Mahalaxmi…. Continue Reading →
Recent diphtheria deaths in Malappuram are the price we pay for a distorted health development strategy. By Dr B. EKBAL THE recent spread of the vaccine-preventable infectious disease diphtheria and the consequent death of two students of Arabic… Continue Reading →
Srinath Vudali,TNN | Oct 7, 2015, 12.03 AM IST HYDERABAD: Fraudsters are turning Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s ‘Digital India’ campaign on its head to siphon off money from bank accounts of the general public. With the Union government advocating linking… Continue Reading →
Nayantara Sahgal. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy | The Hindu Her protest is “in memory of the Indians who have been murdered, in support of all Indians who uphold the right to dissent, and of all dissenters who now live in… Continue Reading →
Nayachar NGT Order-16-9-2015 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has finally ordered scrapping of the proposed Super Thermal Power Plant (STPP) on Nayachar Island. 13 Fishermen Cooperative Societies, operating in the Nayachar island, moved the NGT Eastern Bench at Kolkata against… Continue Reading →
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