-TheWire.in The literacy RATe among Wayanad’s tribal community is lower than the overall literacy RATe of Adivasis in Kerala. Kalpetta, Wayanad: October 20 was a memorable Sunday for a group of 23 college students from different districts of northern and central Kerala studying at Wayanad’s NMSM Government College. The students were visiting Adivasi hamlets for a survey. They were not alone. On the same day, across Wayanad, roughly 3,000 volunteers and officials, including...
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Haryana's sex RATio no longer India's worst, but attitudinal change a long way off -Sadhika Tiwari & Sana Ali
-IndiaSpend.com Jhajjar, Haryana: “There are families who keep trying to get a boy child, they have three, four, five daughters but they keep trying in the hope of a son,” said Sunita Devi, the pradhaan (head) of Dhandlan village in Haryana’s Jhajjar district. “A boy child continues to be important simply because he is perceived to be an asset, not a burden.” Haryana has historically had one of the lowest sex...
More »Carcinogen Aflatoxin detected in FSSAI milk survey samples -Meenakshi Sushma
-Down to Earth The highest RATes of aflatoxin contamination were found in Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Kerala Traces of Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1), a deadly carcinogen, were found in some of the milk samples tested as part of a national survey by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The final results of the milk survey were released on October 18, 2019. Out of the 6,432 total milk samples that were tested, 368...
More »A law alone will not serve as a panacea against torture by police in India -Yashovardhan Azad
-The Indian Express What is needed is ‘ease of policing’, better training and infrastructure Common Cause’s recent survey on the Status of Policing in India is said to have affirmed that the black sheep in the police force find nothing wrong with beating up criminals to extract a confession. It is still, however, too judgemental to suggest that torture is endemic to Indian policing, as Maja Daruwala does (‘Exorcising third-degree’, IE,...
More »Experts warn about the dangers of signing RCEP -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth At a media interaction in New Delhi, experts from civil society organisations enumeRATed damages that could be caused to various sectors of the Indian economy if India signed the deal Various sectors of the Indian economy including agriculture, dairy, services and data will be facing the heat due to the forthcoming Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) according to leaked documents, experts said while talking to media on October 16,...
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