In the name of flexibility and independence, differential insurance slabs come at the expense of workers’ rights and protections. Companies like Swiggy leverage this flexibility to implement performance-based incentives that may inadvertently contribute to a culture of overwork and stress among their workforces; by intervening the Congress ruled governments of Karnataka and Rajasthan (formerly) have shown the way
Given that all Indian citizens can express our free will and do so openly, would it have been tolerated if a church or a mosque had been suddenly constructed in the apartment complex? Or would that too have fallen prey to a demolition?
More than a year after Tamil Nadu saw human faeces dumped in a drinking water tank used by Dalit communities, another such inhumane incident has taken place in the state once again leaving many sick and even more horrified.
Underscoring the need for prison reforms, SC in its latest order on April 23 asked the Chief Secretaries of respective States to submit their plans on implementing the recommendations of District Committees to improve prison infrastructure and living conditions of prisoners
Radha Semwal Dhoni who is known for harassing Muslims and Christians once again turns up with a group of young men outside a vegetable shop run by a Muslim.
Maharashtra, with 9,78,54,049 has electors which is the base figure for the re-examination of electoral rolls under the ongoing SIR; now the CEO Maharashtra has outlined a schedule detailing deadlines for enumeration, draft publication, claims and objections, verification, final electoral roll publication and post-publication correction procedures
While Parliament broadens the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, crime records show only 60 convictions from over 1,100 arrests between 2014 and 2024
The July 28 interim order preserves evidence and contemplates an SIT, but leaves unresolved who should investigate when the police themselves stand accused
The author argues that varied protests and movements of the past dozen years --from the anti-CAA/NRC protests, to the farmers’ mass mobilisations to the recent Gen ‘Z’ upsurge --these movements may differ in their immediate demands, but they share a common democratic foundation: Citizens do not take to the streets because they have abandoned faith in the Republic. They do so because they believe the Republic can still be made to listen.