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1 in 5 kids in rehab homes has behavioural issues, finds study -Durgesh Nandan Jha

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The poor mental health of many inmates of child rehabilitation institutions in Delhi has always been known. But it is only now that there are actual figures to show the extent of a brewing crisis as the children grow older. The data has been collated by the psychiatry department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, based on its assessment of 414 children living in...

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Maharashtra govt rolls out new plan for slum-free Mumbai -Sandeep A Ashar

-The Indian Express Maharashtra govt rolls out new plan for slum-free Mumbai Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Thursday rolled out a new plan to take Mumbai towards a slum-free status. Under this plan, over 18 lakh slum dwellers residing in slum tenements, that came up between 2000 and 2011, have now been guaranteed a replacement house. However, it will not be for free. All these residents would need to pay for the...

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'Disciplined, democratic and dignified': P Sainath on the path shown to us by the Kisan Long March

-Scroll.in The Kisan Long March will leave an enduring mark, the journalist writes in the preface to a new book that documents the historic struggle. Weeks after the Long March, the idea and image still lingers – of 40,000 people walking over 200-km, the last 10-15 km in darkness and silence (as silent as it is possible for such a multitude to be). Those farmers and landless peasants walked into Mumbai,...

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Questions for RTI boss

-PTI New Delhi: Information commissioner Sridhar Acharyalu has questioned the way chief information commissioner R.K. Mathur dissolved and reconstituted a bench that was hearing complaints against some political parties. Acharyalu said the move raised "serious questions" about the "independence of individual information commissioner(s), who can be part of a bench for some time and not for some other, against his will, without his consent and without a reason or without giving a...

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Before and after Javed Abidi -Vaishnavi Jayakumar

-The Indian Express India’s disability movement will not be the same again. I wonder if 50 years down the line, India’s disability movement’s timeline will be viewed as before and after Javed Abidi. The unexpected passing away of this colossus a few days back has shaken all — from activists who were his contemporaries to reporters wondering aloud on Twitter about whom to ask for quotes in future coverage of disability. So where...

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