Poor jobless families in Jangal Mahal area are being forced to pull out children from schools due to acute shortage of teachers and high cost of private education.
Examining the Supreme Court’s latest ruling and its impact on citizenship claims under the Foreigners Act in Assam, with a detailed analysis of how the Rofiqul Hoque case reshapes judicial scrutiny of documentary evidence
Case dropped after complainant expresses no objection and Delhi Police finds no grounds to proceed under POCSO Act; Court accepts police’s 550-page closure report
This backdoor entry of Say’s Law is reflected in the absurd rationale of the neo-liberal economic order that’s pushing an ‘export-led growth’ strategy on smaller countries.
Various indigenous (Adivasi) communities constitute about 8.6 per cent of the population of India. Nearly 700 such communities with a total population of over...
Around 55 animals, many of them livestock, reportedly killed by lightning in Maharashtra. Mango orchards in the Lucknow-Unnao belt are also reported to be severely damaged.
With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance
Arrested in a case in which his name did not figure in the original FIR, Dr Randall Sequeira faces serious criminal charges amid an intensifying crackdown on Adivasi communities resisting bauxite mining in Odisha
Communities resisting the proposed 11,200 MW project fear the loss of ancestral land, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activists detained under the APUAPA
In Karnataka, during the pandemic and lockdown, mid-day meals in government schools and anganwadis under the National Food Security Act (2013) [1], shut down indefinitely [2,3] amidst growing concerns about how this would affect vulnerable communities. In spite of demands, the state government has not yet undertaken a detailed post pandemic and lockdown survey to identify the immediate and long-term interventions to address and prevent malnutrition. Several visits have been made by civil society organisations, students, nutritionists and academics to different districts of Karnataka, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic and this commentary gives a broad overview of the observations made. There is a need for an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study.