-The Hindu For the Chenchus, the Nallamala forest is their home. Not any longer after a National Tiger Conservation Authority order stripped them of their rights in a bid to fortify India’s largest tiger reserve. The sun has barely risen but the Chenchu men and women along with their children are out on a long trek, one which will take them deep into the Nallamala forest along the Eastern Ghats, in...
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Why Hindu farmers and cattle traders in Rajasthan are angry with gau rakshaks -Ajaz Ashraf
-Scroll.in Those who buy and sell milch cows and oxen for farm work say cow vigilantes have made it impossible for them to conduct their business. Cow vigilantism has been portrayed as a blowback against the Muslim community’s insistence on consuming beef, unmindful of the fact that slaughtering cows hurts Hindus who worship the animal. This depiction has framed the cow as an incendiary issue between Hindus and Muslims, an irreconcilable...
More »There is an overall sense of shrinking liberty in India, says report on World Press Freedom Day
-Scroll.in There were 54 attacks on journalists, THRee cases of TV news channels being banned, 45 internet shutdowns, and as many sedition cases in the past 16 months. Between January 2016 and April 2017, India has witnessed at least 54 reported attacks on journalists, THRee instances of television news channels being banned, 45 internet shutdowns, and as many sedition cases against individuals and groups. Besides, seven journalists were reportedly killed in...
More »Sponsors banned: Docs asked to raise funds for conferences -Durgesh Nandan Jha & Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has asked its state and local units to raise funds from member doctors to organise conferences and functions instead of seeking sponsorship. According to IMA office-bearers, the decision was taken at a meeting on Wednesday in view of allegations about pharmaceutical companies and the device industry shaping the content and style of medical conferences. "If doctors want to meet at a...
More »If Modi Really Wants Affordable Medicines, Why is His Niti Aayog Pushing in the Opposite Direction? -Anoo Bhuyan
-TheWire.in The government’s premier policy-formulating agency recently recommended measures to deregulate the pharmaceutical sector and make essential medicines more expensive. New Delhi: Even as the prime minister repeatedly expresses his commitment to providing affordable medicines in the country, it appears that the NITI Aayog and the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) may be working in an opposing direction. Documents between October 2016 and April 2017 show the intention of various government arms to...
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