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Ratan Tata and Justice K.T. Thomas appointed as trustees for PM Cares Fund

-The Telegraph The ambit of the corpus created to fight public health emergencies widened but its veil stays intact The veil on the PM Cares Fund — the corpus created to battle the Covid-19 crisis without the tiresome need for any audit scrutiny — remained FIRmly in place even as its newly-appointed trustees decided on Wednesday to widen the scope of its operations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a virtual meeting of the...

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The nowhere people -Anshuman Behera

-The Telegraph Communities of Chhattisgarh caught in cross-FIRe between Salwa Judum and the Maoists The ghost of the Salwa Judum, a State-sponsored militia that operated in Chhattisgarh, continues to haunt the displaced Gotte Koya tribals. Before the apex court declared the militia unconstitutional, the Salwa Judum was illegally engaged in fighting the Maoists. Caught between the Salwa Judum and the Maoists, many communities were at the receiving end of the violence with...

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How the Pandemic Exacerbated Identity-Based Discrimination in India's Labour Market -Siddharth Ganguly

-TheWire.in While employment was hit harder in urban areas due to the extent of disruption to urban business by the national lockdowns, rural India saw a more unequal distribution of these effects due to high discrimination. In the FIRst article in this two-part series, we looked at the findings on discrimination in India’s labour market detailed in Oxfam’s India Discrimination Report 2022.  While that article detailed the extent of discrimination faced by Muslims,...

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Mathura, Hapur, Jhajjar – Small-town divorces rising and shocking courts, lawyers, families -Jyoti Yadav

-ThePrint.in A common sentiment that is prevalent in smaller towns at large is, "80 per cent of this is coming from women." Hapur/ Mathura: As she waited for the judge to call her case file, Rinki stared at two advocates in the Mathura courtroom in disbelief and disdain as they argued over the sordid details of another woman’s married life. This wasn’t the FIRst time she had come to the court for...

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