-The Indian Express The incident at Mehtab Shah Kutchi Basti had caused nationwide outrage with activists severely criticising the Rajasthan Government after it cited the preliminary post-mortem report to claim that Hussain died due to cardio-respiratory failure. Jaipur: MORE THAN a year after a 53-year-old man died in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh following a scuffle with local civic officials engaged in the Swachh Bharat campaign — he objected to them taking photographs of...
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Cause for caution: On India's GDP growth -Puja Mehra
-The Hindu India’s GDP growth continues to be powered by consumption, not investments A question being raised about the GDP estimates for the first quarter of this year (April-June) is: How should 8.2% GDP growth be interpreted in, or reconciled with, the overall context of some of the pronounced trends in the economy? These include the depreciating rupee, rising bank bad loans, or non-performing assets (NPAs), a trade deficit that has shot...
More »A Shrinking Table -Shruti Lakhtakia
-The Indian Express As the elderly population grows, India faces new questions, must find new answers. During my childhood, we had a rather strict rule about having dinner together as a family. My grandparents were close to my father, and he to them. The cacophony of cross-conversations between grandparents, parents, cousins bore testimony to filial responsibility that had been deeply internalised by every generation. For a society in the throes of turbulent change,...
More »Nine Mob Lynching Cases across 8 States Despite SC Warning - Vivan Eyben
-Newsclick.in The apex court has rapped state Governments for not filing compliance reports. On Friday, the Supreme Court directed the state Governments to file compliance reports within a week on the measures taken to tackle mob lynching in furtherance of its July 17 judgement. In the judgement, the Supreme Court had directed the state Governments to file their compliance reports with the Court Registry within four weeks. The matter was listed for...
More »With Attack on Himachal Man, Number of Murdered RTI Activists Rises to 73 -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Family members of slain Kedar Singh Jindan, along with several locals and activists, have demanded a CBI probe into the matter. New Delhi: Even as the Centre dithers on implementing the Whistleblowers Protection Act, which was passed four years ago to protect anyone who exposes alleged wrongdoing in Government bodies, another name has been added to the growing list of RTI activists who have been killed for raising disturbing questions. The...
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