-TheNewsMinute.com The spirit of mandatory reporting does not always translate to what survivors, faced with a hostile society and complicated legal system, need in reality. The recent allegations of sexual abuse of children spanning years in many reputed chennai schools have shocked many, but it has also revealed how difficult it is to navigate institutional abuse. In many cases, the survivors are now adults. This has also brought to light a contentious...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 1128
Cases of digital frauds surge during pandemic; Mumbai, Delhi and chennai top chart
-Moneycontrol.com The share of suspected fraudulent digital transaction attempts originating from India increased 28.32 percent over the 12 months ending March, 2021 compared with the previous 12 months, according to a report. With the increased usage of digital channels for payments during the COVID-19 pandemic, attempts of digital fraud have been on the rise in India as in the rest of the world, according to recent reports by TransUnion and ACI Worldwide....
More »Eminent individuals oppose the appointment of Justice Arun Mishra as Chairperson of NHRC
-Press release by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) dated 2nd June, 2021 We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the Prime Minister. What is troubling is that the decision to appoint Justice Arun Kumar Mishra as NHRC...
More »Covid: Medical experts to study the real-world effectiveness of Covishield and Covaxin -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Researchers will document the vaccination status of infected patients admitted with severe disease at 11 sites across the country Medical researchers have launched India’s first study to measure the real-world effectiveness of Covishield and Covaxin by documenting the vaccination status of Covid-19 patients admitted with severe disease at 11 sites across the country. The study by the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), chennai, a unit of the Indian Council of Medical...
More »Riverside graves of the Covid dead tell a story of the media’s failure -Kalpana Sharma
-Newslaundry.com And of a crisis of economic distress and hunger that’s gone largely unreported. The defining image of this second wave of the pandemic in India has now become the hundreds of shallow graves along the Ganga and other rivers, replacing the searing images of burning pyres. These graves are a stark reminder not just of the discrepancy in death data between the official and the actual, but they also hint at...
More »
