-The Telegraph March sought equality for farm workers New Delhi: A band of bold women is outing alleged predators in newsrooms in the country while another group of women is hitting the streets to bar their gender from the Sabarimala temple in Kerala. In the middle of the twin turmoil and away from the limelight, as many as 25,000 people from the election-bound heartland had last week set out on a long march...
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The bullet train may trigger social conflict and have significant environmental cost -Mayank Aggarwal
-Mongabay.com * December 2018 is the official deadline for the land acquisition for the bullet train project but till now not even one percent of the required land is acquired. A court case is already going on in the Gujarat High Court against the land acquisition process undertaken by the Gujarat government. * Despite documents showing that the project has the potential to cause social conflict and have adverse environmental impacts, the...
More »Just before code kicks in, Vasundhara Raje gives sops to farmers -Palak Nandi
-The Times of India KAYAD, AJMER: Minutes before election dates were announced and the model code of conduct kicked in, CM Vasundhara Raje announced free power to farmers in rural areas in her address at the ‘Vijay Sankalp Sabha’, where the PM also launched his campaign. Her announcement came around 2 pm, just an hour before Election Commission announced the date for the election. The EC had earlier scheduled its announcement for...
More »These superwomen from Himachal Pradesh show why empowered women make for an empowered country -Raksha Kumar
-The Hindu Bhuira's women are coping with the higher workload by creating vastly more flexible family and community structures. And they are simultaneously pushing towards modernity much faster than their neighbours. Everyone in the village sneaks a glance when Upasana Kumari drives her White Maruti 800 to work. “Driving a car is intoxicating,” says Kumari. A winding, muddy, single lane road that starts from the edge of the hillock where Kumari’s house...
More »194 Politicians, Including 6 Former CMs, Submitted Fake PAN Details to EC -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Of the 194 lawmakers, 72 are from the Congress and 41 from the BJP, the Cobrapost investigation found upon analysing over 2,000 affidavits submitted between 2006-16. New Delhi: Investigative website Cobrapost, which had earlier this year exposed some media houses succumbing to the lure of Hindutva advertorials, has now claimed to have discovered that 194 Indian politicians made false submissions regarding their permanent account numbers (PAN) while reporting their income to...
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