-The New Indian Express Former MP Mohammed Adeeb had moved the apex court asking for action against Haryana officials for failing to comply with earlier directions to curb communal sentiments resulting in hate Crimes. NEW DELHI: With controversy raging in Gurugram over Friday namaz in public spaces and a former Rajya Sabha MP approaching the Supreme Court over the right to practise religion, a look at the precedents reveals that various court...
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Crimes against women keep them out of the job market -Neelanjana Gupta
-Livemint.com A study shows the link between India’s low rate of female labour participation and the threats women face India’s female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) is a puzzling feature of our economy. Though output more than doubled and the number of working-age women grew by a quarter over the last two decades, the number of women in jobs declined by 10 million. Global indices and gender empowerment measures also paint a...
More »Upper-caste Hindus, policemen responsible for murder of Dalit family, say kin
-MaktoobMedia.com Kin of the four members of a Dalit family who were killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on Thursday have alleged that an upper-caste Hindu family is responsible for the heinous Crime. Phoolchand Pasi, a 50-year-old Dalit labourer, his wife 40-year-old Meenu, 10-year-old son Shiv and 16-year-old daughter Sapna were murdered in Gohri village of Soraon Vidhan Sabha of Prayagraj. The minor girl was allegedly gang-raped before her death. While talking to NDTV,...
More »When Supreme Court spoke its mind on Lakhimpur Kheri incident, farmers -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Bench identified with farmers while insisting on a speedy, impartial probe The Supreme Court’s intervention to protect the investigation in Uttar Pradesh following the murder of farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, in which the son of a Union Minister is an accused, as well as the expressions of support for the farming community from the Bench of the Chief Justice of India created ripples days before the Prime Minister’s televised assurance...
More »Understanding the NCRB data on suicides with caution
The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...
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