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The Deaths behind India’s Cleanliness

India has progressed technologically, legislated against manual scavenging, and constitutionally abolished untouchability. Yet, in the twenty-first century, caste still determines who enters a sewer. The persistence of manual scavenging...

A Legislative Bill for Faith-based Citizenship: How India Has Reached This Point of Disaster?

On Wednesday, December 4 2019, the Union cabinet gave...

900 scientists & scholars oppose CAB, 2019

Scientists from many of the country's leading research institutions,have strongly protested the Modi govt's proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill.

The true cost of hailing the CAB

As the nation debates, dissects and protests yet another attempt by a divisive regime to tear asunder our pluralistic, composite culture, and the last vestiges of our socio-cultural diversity, let us take an in-depth look into the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB).

282 ‘sewer deaths’ in last 4 years reported

A question was put forth by BJP MP, Sushil Kumar Singh, on December 3 in the Lok Sabha regarding rehabilitation of Manual scavengers. He asked about deaths due to manual scavenging and details of identified manual scavengers and their rehabilitation.

NRC-NPR an assault on India’s poorest citizens : Teesta Setalvad

CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad addresses a press conference with...

Chhattisgarh HC orders PSU to stop all mining activity

The PSU had obtained a fake NOC from the gram sabha to begin mining

ILO bats for making the future of work inclusive of persons with disabilities

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has just released a report that highlights how challenges to participation in the workforce make persons with disabilities vulnerable to poverty and social exclusion.

A deep cut in your pocket: Onions being sold for over Rs. 100 per kg throughout the country

NAFED director says prices of the bulbous crop will only come down in January

Lakhs of people protest CAB, 2019 in Assam

Protest by cotton College Student's UnionGuwahati, December 6, 2019:...

CAB reaction: Security tightened in BJP, RSS and AGP offices, not in vulnerable Assamese-Bengali areas

Representation Image / PTIGuwahati, December 6, 2019: Amidst...

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