-IndiaToday.in A district fast track court on Tuesday deferred the hearing of Dadri lynching case to July 4. Dadri: The fast track court hearing the Dadri lynching case deferred the matter to July 4 as the police was not able to provide adequate security to deceased's daughter due to Bharat Bandh called by opposition parties. Mohammad Akhlaq, 55, was lynched on suspicion of cow slaughter on September 28, 2015. The incident triggered nationwide...
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Old Age Pension: Stagnant Amounts and Gender Differential -Richa Chintan
-Newsclick.in Since 2007, the central government has given a meagre Rs 7 to Rs 16 per day to the elderly. Some states have recently announced an increase in entitlements under the old-age pension scheme. For instance, Andhra Pradesh increased the old age pension amount by about Rs 250 to Rs 2500 per month at the beginning of 2022. More recently, the Uttar Pradesh government has announced an increase in the old-age pension...
More »Mitanins: The women who kept Chhattisgarh safe during the COVID-19 pandemic -Ravleen Kaur
-Down to Earth The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been misusing their sense of social commitment 50-year-old Saraswati Kaushik’s day starts at 5 am. After preparing food for the family and an hour or two of farm work, she goes for home visits in her ‘para’ (locality) to check on pregnant mothers, infants, kids below five years of age, elderly people in need of treatment...
More »Declared Illegal Immigrants, Detained For 18 Months, Then Found To Be Indian: An Assam Muslim Family’s Trauma -Sanskrita Bharadwaj
-Article-14.com Nur and Sahera Hussain spent 18 months at a detention centre for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam. Sahera kept their two minor children with her in the jail-like facility. A year since they were found to be bonafide Indian citizens and released, they are struggling to rebuild their lives. Tens of thousands have similarly left Assam’s detention centres, or are waiting for a tribunal verdict, still haunted by fears of...
More »Dalberg study indicates that ONORC can be improved further
A recently released study, which has been done by Dalberg in collaboration with Kantar, and with support from the Omidyar Network India, brings to light both the supply and demand-side perspectives on the 'One Nation One Ration Card' (ONORC) scheme. Titled 'Fulfilling the promise of One Nation One Ration Card: A frontline perspective from 5 Indian states', the survey for the study was conducted in five states i.e., Andhra Pradesh,...
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