-Hindustan Times Citizens are finding innovative ways to protest and are often doing so without the help of political parties, who often arrive ‘late to the party’. Though the recent violence in Shillong began over a minor scuffle and spread through a fabricated story on WhatsApp, it took almost a week to de-escalate tensions between members of the Sikh community, long-time settlers in the Punjabi Lane area of the city, and Khasis,...
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Centre hikes import duty on crude, refined soft edible oils
-The Hindu Business Line Palm oil imports slow down in May Bengaluru/ Ahmedabad: The Centre has increased the import duty on crude and refined soft edible oils such as soy oil, sunflower oil and Rapeseed on Thursday. Duty on crude soft edible oils has been hiked to 35 per cent and on and soft oils to 45 per cent. Earlier, crude soy oil attracted an import duty of 30 per cent, and sunflower...
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 »Bakerwals are losing their way of life to barbed wire -Jayashree Nandi
-The Times of India Post Kathua, these nomadic people are struggling to protect their daughters, as well as their rights over open pastures Bashir Hussain worries constantly for his five-year-old daughter Najma, ever since the horrific gang-Rape and murder in Kathua. “What will I do if something happens to her? What happened to the eight-year-old Bakerwal girl could happen only because we have no rights over forests and pastures in this state....
More »When politicians endorse child marriage, you have to shout 'Beti bachao' -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth In a recent event, BJP MLA Gopal Parmar said that child marriage is the solution to many problems like ‘love jihad’, elopement and divorce In the light of rampant child marriages and related suffering of women in India, British India debated ‘Age of Consent Bill’ in 1880s when an 11-year-old Bengali girl, Phulmani, died after her husband had brutally Raped her. Since then, India has crossed many milestones: getting...
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