-The Hindu Does the Bill address issues of gender and identity? Does it consider the appeals and the concerns of the community? The story so far: Parliament has made into law the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, which had been framed for the welfare of transgender persons. The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on August 5 this year, a month after its introduction in the House, and the...

-The Hindu Report on congenital deformities in children born to women exposed to the 1984 gas leak is inconclusive, says committee. An expert committee explicitly barred the publication of the findings of a research study that said babies born to women — who as children were exposed to the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal — were significantly more likely to have “congenital malformations” than those born to women unexposed to the gas. The...

-PTI With onion prices continuing to rule high at ?80-90 per kg, the government on Wednesday extended prohibitions on traders from the stocking of edible bulb across the country for an indefinite period. Separately, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan did not say by when prices of onion will normalise. “It’s not in our hand, the government is taking maximum efforts but who can win from nature,” he told reporters. Please click...

-The Hindu Amnesty’s India head Aakar Patel alleges that FTs were often dismissive, used derogatory language, controlled their own procedures and applied them in arbitrary ways. Guwahati: Amnesty International India said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court and the Gauhati High Court had enabled the Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) to create a statelessness crisis in Assam. The global rights body made this observation in a briefing, ‘Designed to Exclude’, as it called for a...

-Livemint.com * As Andhra buys into English medium education, the language has become a symbol of progress in uncertain times * While there is a resistance to the imposition of Hindi in the south, English is embraced as it is less threatening with regard to racial and ethnic dominance, and more promising of an economic future The English language has been a great survivor in India. From being labelled as a scheming, rootless...