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Two decades on, hunger still haunts Gujarat: Survey exposes stark gap behind poverty claims
A Niti Aayog report, released about two years ago, estimated that in Gujarat — which our powers-that-be have long considered a model state — 11.66% of people are "multidimensionally...
No Mid-day meals disbursed in Goa during lockdown: Education Ministry
In 2017-18, Assam recorded Highest dropout of girls from secondary school while Delhi recorded highest enrolment of girls
ICMR’s grim report: Nearly 40% of Indians already exposed to Covid-19!
The country’s first national survey brings out disconcerting results stating that India’s Covid-19 cases are grossly under-reported due to selective testing in early stages.
Shrey Hospital Fire: The curious case of the missing phones
It is bad enough that eight people died in the fire that broke out in the ICU, but now it turns out their phones may have been taken away before the fire
Covid-19 vaccine hits road bump, as India speeds towards 100,000 daily cases
As Oxford Covid vaccine trials paused in UK, Serum Institute of India gets show cause notice
SSR’s tragic death: Are we missing the wood for the trees?
The ongoing media frenzy over Sushant Singh Rajput’s (SSR) tragic death has once again diverted attention from timely intervention for mental health condition to all possible permutations and combinations; memories of Arushi Talwar’s murder case are still fresh.
Shrey Hospital case: Victims’ families demand CBI inquiry
All eight people in the ICU had died in a fire on August 6, 2020
My worst nightmare is coming to school with an oxygen cylinder: Ridhima Pandey to PM
The teenage environmental activist from Uttarakhand has written to Prime Minister to help children have clean air to breathe
Delhi jails most crowded; number of unnatural deaths on the rise: Prison report 2019
Undertrials still dominate the inmates in Indian jails, here’s a look at how prisons have fared in 2019
India now has over 3.69 million Covid-19 cases
Joint Task Force of experts tell PM it must be assumed that an effective vaccine "would not be available in the near future"
Tablighi Jamaat: Bom HC judge disagrees with colleague’s remark on “indirect warning to Muslims”
Justice Sewlikar has said he does not conform to Justice Nalawade’s views that taking action against Tablighi Jamaat attendees was a warning for Indian Muslims in light of anti-CAA protests
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Minorities
Development by Displacement: Assam evicts thousands for Adani project without due process
In the name of industrial progress, the Assam government has unleashed bulldozers across Dhubri and Goalpara, displacing thousands, mainly flood-hit, landless, Bengali-origin Muslims. With no meaningful rehabilitation. As land is cleared for a Rs 40,000 crore Adani power project, what’s being erased is more than just homes: it’s the fragile stability of lives long on the edge
India
Indian Muslims need to be protected as much from the communalism of their co-religionists as majoritarian communalism: In remembrance of CM Naim
An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85. Here his work is remembered for its out of the box thinking and commitment to both the culture and language around Urdu; an essay that recalls his works
Communalism
Delhi Court sentences riots accused for promoting hatred against Muslims, sentences him to 3 years in custody
Lokesh Kumar Solanki convicted for inciting violence during 2020 Delhi riots; court calls his conduct “fuel to already simmering tensions” but releases him citing maximum sentence already served
Rights
Harassment by Delhi Police, blatant extortion & human rights’ violation in process of identification of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”: Brinda Karat to HM Amit Shah
Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-CPIM), has in a letter to the union home minister, Amit Shah highlighted the blatant violation of human rights, harassment and extortion, in the ongoing process of "identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" by the Delhi police and other agencies.
Labour
Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states
Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer
Children
Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO
Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Politics
Bihar: SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision
Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship