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Waste, Responsibility and Decentralisation: A Gandhian Perspective on Solid Waste Management in Kerala (Part 1)
Waste Management as a Social Problem Urban solid waste management is among the most critical responsibilities of any modern state. Yet success in this area remains elusive across much of...
No Covid-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage reported by States/UTs: Centre in RS
The Health Ministry said that States and Union Territories have not reported any deaths due to oxygen shortage or inadequate medical infrastructure
No data on witnesses killed, turned hostile: Centre in Lok Sabha
The MoS Home Affairs, has answered in the Lok Sabha that data on witnesses killed is not centrally maintained
Make Right to Health a fundamental right: Oxfam India’s report on unequal healthcare
A detailed and comprehensive analysis, uses data since 2015-16 to understand the persisting issues of health inequalities in India
Pegasus spyware trotting into ministers’ phones, who is next?
In Parliament, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw dismissed surveillance of journalists, however he too is on the ‘list’ say latest reports
Why are so many people mourning Danish Siddiqui?
The photographs he took showed truth to power, and had empathy with the common man
Malad’s slum-dwellers demand immediate rehabilitation
Trapped within the danger-zone that residents call a “dump,” Ambedkar Nagar residents stage a protest, as Maharashtra CM for homes
Role of RSS & police in communal riots, Aligarh: Parliamentary debates
In the debate held in Lok Sabha in December 1978, former Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, leader of the opposition Y.B. Chavan, the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai, and many other veteran parliamentarians participated. The PM, Morarji Desai conceded on the floor of the house that U.P. PAC committed excesses against Muslims during 1978 communal riots in Aligarh.
Regime shamelessly rewards hate offenders and stooges promoting a divisive agenda
In the recent Cabinet reshuffle, Anurag Thakur of “goli maaro s****n ko” fame gets I&B and Sports ministries!
Do Baba Ramdev’s statements attract criminal liability?
The Yoga Guru has been infamously in the news for dissing modern science and anti-Covid vaccines
Reflections on the demise of Fr. Stan Swamy
It is not Fr Stan that we need to mourn… It is ourselves!
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