-Hindustan Times It will give the failing discipline the priority, energy and momentum it requires To eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, a decision to integrate the two vertically implemented programmes — tuberculosis with HIV/AIDS — was taken in March, and an expert committee was constituted to provide the operational strategies for it. The argument for this integration is unquestionable. When HIV/AIDS claimed 30 million lives in the 1990s, it was declared a global...
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'Dismantling India': A grim account of 4 years of Modi government -Bhasha Singh
-National Herald Titled ‘Dismantling India’ and put together by a team of distinguished experts, the study complains about the failing economy, rising unemployment, atrocities against minorities under the BJP govt A damning report scrutinizing the performance of the Narendra Modi government in its first four years was released on Saturday. In last four years of Modi government, there have been 214 reported cases of attack on civil society and freedom of expression, 228...
More »FMP condemns hate speech against journalists
-Press Note by Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP), dated 28 May, 2018 Mr Narendra Modi is perhaps the first Prime Minister of India to have not held a single press conference, four years at a stretch. This could not however have been unrelated to a series of events that raise fresh concerns about Media Freedom. The concerted online hate campaign against journalist Ms Rana Ayyub, and the circulation of a fake pornographic...
More »Press freedom down, 3 journalists killed in 2018: Report
-IANS New Delhi: Press freedom in India has deteriorated in 2018 and three journalists have been killed in the first four months, media watchdog The Hoot said, stating that "journalists continue to be vulnerable". The number of killings documented by the Hoot report for the first four months was the same as in the whole of 2017. "They were killed in connection with their reporting, judging by what initial investigations show," it said. India...
More »Caste-branding knifes 'nation in the chest'
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi and Mayawati castigated the Madhya Pradesh government on Monday over the branding of police recruits by caste, and Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule asked the Prime Minister's Office to probe the "shameful" incident. Media reports have said that newly recruited police constables had "SC" (Scheduled Caste), "ST" (Scheduled Tribe) or "OBC" (Other Backward Classes) marked on their bare chests with felt pens during their medical...
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