-NDTV.com Rajasthan Triple Suicide: One of the children was a 4-year-old boy and the other was a 27-day old infant. Two of the women were pregnant. Jaipur: A tragic suicide case shocked Rajasthan as three sisters, all married into the same family, died by suicide along with two children. One of the children was a 4-year-old boy and the other was a 27-day old infant. Worse, two of the women were pregnant...
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24 Children–Mostly Adivasi Girls–Go Missing in MP Every Day, But It Isn’t Considered An Extraordinary Situation -Ritwika Mitra
-Article-14.com More children go missing in Madhya Pradesh than in any other Indian state. The majority are Advasi. Despite chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s assurances that tracing Missing Children is a priority, police often do not file FIRs weeks after a child’s disappearance. When girls go missing a second or third time, FIRs are often not filed at all, as stereotypes about some communities hamper due process of law. Dhar, Madhya Pradesh:...
More »Kendriya Vidyalayas raise entry age of students to six, parents protest -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph A KVS official said the change in the admission criterion for Class I had been implemented to match the NEP guidelines New Delhi: The central government-run Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has changed the age criterion for admission to Class I from five-plus to six-plus from the coming academic session, raising the prospect of thousands of students missing out on the opportunity of receiving quality and affordable education. The change in policy...
More »‘We’re being pushed into poverty’: Voices of women who took on the unicorn start-up Urban Company -Karishma Mehrotra
-Scroll.in Frustrated by rules they see as onerous, a bunch of beauticians are speaking up – and sometimes being heard. Nidhi Chander* was full of hope until five years ago. That was when she gave up her job as a beautician at a unisex salon in Pitampura, Delhi, where she was earning Rs 20,000 a month, to work with Urban Clap. She believed the home services start-up would give her the freedoms...
More »Hit hard by cracker bans, Sivakasi’s fireworks workers are missing a transition plan -Hariprasad Radhakrishnan
-TheNewsMinute.com Caught between denialism and short-sightedness, vulnerable communities in Sivakasi bear the brunt of clampdowns due to air pollution. At the strike of a gavel in Delhi, lights go out in Sivakasi. When states located thousands of kilometres away place curbs, sales turn out to be a damp squib in the fireworks capital. Year after year, about 6.5 lakh people in Sivakasi dependent on the fireworks industry suffer from rude market shocks because...
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