-The Hindu Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on the petition by a law student The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to respond to a plea filed by a law student seeking the implementation of the Justice J.S. Verma Committee report on crime against women and Children. The court issued notices to the government on a plea by B. Srinivas Goud, represented by advocates Ramaswami Balaji and Shravan Kumar, for...
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Women protesters are taking to the streets en masse to fight the CAA and police brutality -Anuradha Raman
-The Hindu They are homemakers and grandmothers, doctors and lawyers, students and teachers. They are all women and they have come out of their homes in massive numbers to protest the CAA. It’s our country, they say. It’s our Children’s country. And nobody can take that away from us Women. Suddenly, they are visible. Great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, teenagers, baby girls. They have slowly but surely reclaimed a corner of a public ground...
More »Infant deaths: A bleak winter for Kota's Children -Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu While the Children’s families blame the staff of Kota’s J.K. Lon Hospital for negligence, studies show that the government hospital is poorly equipped and understaffed. Mohammed Iqbal reports on the failure of the primary healthcare system which has led to the deaths of more than a hundred Children in the last 40 days When four-month-old Tejas had a constant cough, ran a high fever and experienced shortness of breath in...
More »Govt has money for statues, not public health: Bombay HC on aid to Wadia Maternity Hospital
-PTI A division bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari and RI Chagla was hearing a public interest litigation seeking release of grants to Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children and Nowrosjee Wadia Maternity. MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday came down heavily on the Maharashtra government for dragging its feet over financial aid to Wadia Hospitals for women and Children, and said the government has money for statues but not for public...
More »Chalk and cheese in private vs. government schools -Wilima Wadhwa
-The Hindu The Annual Status of Education Report findings make a clear case for strengthening early childhood education centres One of the big debates in early childhood education is on Children’s “school readiness” and whether early childhood education provides them with the requisite skills to cope with the school curriculum. A vast literature exists on the importance of certain cognitive abilities that are supposed to be developed during the years Children spend...
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