-The Hindu As infections surge in Odisha, many guest workers are relieved to have stayed on Like several other migrant workers from Odisha, Sumant Naik made innumerable calls throughout May to enquire about a train back home from Perundurai in Erode; he also weighed the costs of returning by bus. Despite several calls, the journey back did not materialise. Now two months later, as the pandemic induced lockdown has eased in Tamil Nadu,...
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Women are bearing a disproportionate burden of pandemic, its consequences. This needs to be addressed -Neera Saggi
-The Indian Express This is not the first time women have been left to fend for themselves and it is not the last time that they would be forced to identify their mode of survival whether in “ghare" or “baire” — within or outside her home. Society, grappling with the COVID-19 virus, the associated health crisis, and issues of economic revival, has MISsed out on the signals that reflect the impact of...
More »6 ex-bureaucrats move SC seeking judicial probe into Modi Govt’s ‘gross MISmanagement’ of COVID-19, lockdown
-National Herald The plea says the Centre failed to “undertake timely and effective measures for containing transMISsion of disease within India” despite being notified about the same by WHO in January, 2020. Six retired bureaucrats have moved the Supreme Court seeking an independent inquiry by a ComMISsion appointed under the ComMISsions of Inquiry Act, 1952, into the Central Government's "gross MISmanagement" of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, legal news website LiveLaw.in has...
More »Low-lying agricultural areas of rural India witnessed most cases of deaths due to snakebite envenoming in the last 2 decades
Poisonous snakebites have killed more than a million Indians in the last two decades, finds a recently published article entitled Trends in snakebite mortality in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study. Published in the open access journal elifesciences.org, the research-based study has found that the country accounts for nearly half the total number of annual deaths in the world caused by snakebite envenoming. Who are the...
More »Police Joined Rioters During Delhi Violence, Alleges Delhi Minorities ComMISsion’s Fact Finding Report -Tarique Anwar
-Newsclick.in The 134-page report was released by the comMISsion on July 16 in Delhi. New Delhi: “The police was coordinating with the mob and the mob kept on chanting, ‘Dilli Police Zindabad’ (Long Live Delhi Police),” says a Delhi Minorities ComMISsion report detailing the communal violence in North-East Delhi in February this year. The ComMISsion has cast serious doubts on the credibility and impartiality of the Delhi Police on July 16 while...
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