The virility of Muslim men vis-à-vis men from other religious communities have often been used as a political tool and to create a divisive agenda just before elections for getting votes from the majority of the Indian electorate who are Hindus. Instead of focusing on positive agendas like human development, employment generation, and poverty reduction, political campaigns just before the elections oftentimes reduce to mere communal propaganda (when a lot...
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Anti-CAA protests gather fresh steam
-The Hindu Rollback of farm laws spurs groups in Assam, event planned on December 12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on repealing the three contentious farm laws has revived groups against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Assam with a protest planned on December 12. The CAA seeks to fast-track the granting of citizenship to non-Muslims who fled religious persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan and took refuge in India till December 31, 2014. A...
More »Chhattisgarh Government Is Taking Back Covid Incentives Paid To Mitanins -Eisha Hussain
-Behanbox.com New Delhi: Usha Sahu, 45, a Mitanin trainer from Bemetara district in central Chhattisgarh was in for a shock when she checked her Bank account in October. The Bank had deducted Rs 2000 from the 4,000 rupees that she received as a special incentive for the Covid-19 duties for the months of April to September, 2021. “When the other Mitanins in the block started complaining about the deduction, I checked my...
More »Colossal notes Ban failure buried in silence -TM Thomas Isaac
-The New Indian Express Having brought this economic disaster on the country, there was not a single statement of regret, introspection or even justification from the powers that be Demonetisation will go down in Indian economic history as one of the greatest policy blunders. In the two quarters prior to the Ban on high denomination rupee notes, the Indian economy had registered around 9% growth. Since then, the growth steadily decelerated and...
More »NCR Air Pollution: Amid Ban on Construction, Workers' Body Moves SC for Ex-Gratia
-PTI/ TheWire.in The National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour has called the blanket Ban on construction 'irrational', adding that the Ban ought to be limited to demolition and excavation. New Delhi: A construction workers’ body has moved the Supreme Court seeking ex-gratia relief schemes for daily workers who will suffer the loss of income due to the sudden complete Ban on the sector’s activities imposed by NCR states to...
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