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Dr. Sylvia Karpagam A special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) released by the Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, showed that Karnataka had declined from 92 per lakh live births in 2016-18 to 83 in 2017-19. While the quickest… Continue Reading →
15th March 2022 The Karnataka High Court in its order today has held that wearing of hijab is not essential to the practice of Islam; that College Development Committees (CDCs) have a right to prescribe a uniform; and that Muslim… Continue Reading →
By an order dated 29th September, 2021, the Chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI) Justice C K Prasad, taking cognizance of a complaint by Mehbooba Mufti, President of the Jammu & Kashmir People’s Democratic Party, set up a… Continue Reading →
Facebook allowed a company owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Group to promote BJP in several election campaigns through surrogate advertisements, found The Reporters’ Collective in its investigation. These advertisements lit the fuse of anti-Muslim sentiments, tommy-gunned BJP’s opponents and critics through… Continue Reading →
The BJP may enjoy ideological dominance today, but counter-hegemonic politics has deeper cultural resources. If we are determined and intelligent, we shall win. YOGENDRA YADAV It feels like a powerful gut punch,” read one of the many messages I received… Continue Reading →
I was a nuclear missile operator. There have been more near-misses than the world knows – Cole Smith
From 2012 to 2017, I worked as a US air force nuclear missile operator. I was 22 when I started. Each time I descended into the missile silo, I had to be ready to launch, at a moment’s notice, a… Continue Reading →
Most of the AAP women candidates who won are greenhorns TNN / Updated: Mar 12, 2022, AAP’s Santosh Kataria, Jeevan Jyot Kaur, Anmol Gagan MaanBATHINDA/LUDHIANA/PATIALA: Of the 13 newly-elected women MLAs in Punjab, 11 belong to AAP, while Congress and SAD… Continue Reading →
That women voters have played a big role in the BJP’s victory in Uttar Pradesh has emerged as a strong narrative after these results. Mar 12, 2022New Delhi Everyone likes to explain election results in hindsight. The temptation to ascribe… Continue Reading →
By -Kalyani Menon Sen, Nivedita Menon, JM Rugma, Cynthia Stephen, Enakshi Ganguly I. Background This note is a product of our effort to investigate the “Kerala illegal adoption case” where a new-born infant was forcibly snatched and handed over to… Continue Reading →
Access to safe abortion critical for health of women and girls: WHO 9 March 2022 The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new guidelines on abortion care today, in a bid to protect the health of women and girls and… Continue Reading →