The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will do well to recognise that it is fast losing touch with the aspirations of the Assamese people. While the party’s central command remains steadfast in its commitment to making the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) […]
The complainant approached NHRC over not having received compensation since January 2020 and listing of the Curative Petition pending since 2010 On December 3, 2020 the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) demanded for action taken reports from the Ministry of […]
Stating that repression, threats and intimidation will not deter their resolve, farmers have yet again reiterated their demand for the withdrawal of the three agriculture laws of the central government. Sick of the central government’s patronising behaviour, Indian farmers reiterated […]
COVID-related school closures risk pushing an additional 72 million primary school aged children into learning poverty—meaning that they are unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10—according to two new World Bank reports released today. The reports […]
The government says the new farm laws will give farmers more choice in where and to whom to sell their produce. The protesters fear the laws will push small and marginal farmers into penury. ByAnumeha Yadav Over the past week, […]
Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal also offered to implead Kappan’s wife and daughter when the CJI wondered if a third-party organisation can espouse his cause On December 2, Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal, representing the Kerala Union of Working Journalist (KUWJ) argued […]
Victims and survivors of disasters past have been shunned in the wake of Covid-19. Groups working for the interest of Bhopal-disaster victims remind the Indian government that a considerable number of people still await justice even decades later. Exactly 36 […]
The participation of women in labour markets in India has witnessed a steady decline in the last two decades. According to World Bank data released in June 2020, India’s female labour force participation is the lowest in South Asia. By […]
It was minutes into India’s Independence Day when police stormed a slum in the western state of Gujarat where Hira Bajania, 65, was sleeping. In the black of night, he was dragged from his home, taken to a nearby police […]
Launching attack on Amrinder Singh, Kejriwal says he’s pro farmer; asks Central govt to accept farmers’ demands, and provide a legal guarantee of MSP A day after being called out for notifying one of the three laws that farmers from […]
