-Scroll.in Indians are not being given the information they need to really understand why farmers are angry about the new agricultural laws, they say. Fifty-eight-year-old Jasbeer Singh listed the names of the places in Haryana where he had to negotiate police barriers before finally arriving at the state’s Singhu border with Delhi as he travelled from his home in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district about 250 km away. Shambhu, between Punjab and Haryana, had...
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Women out of work: ‘We were moving up the ladder and ab lagta hai kisi ne seedhi chheen li’ -Somya Lakhani
-The Indian Express The Covid lockdown has set off sweeping economic distress in cities but its crucial dimension has remained untold: the silent, devastating toll on the working woman in the city suddenly out of work *A month into the lockdown after she lost her job at an energy policy institute that paid Rs 24,000 a month, 29-year-old Reshma, a post-graduate in social work, sent her four-year-old daughter to live with her...
More »Has personal loans seen a rebound ahead of the festive season? The answer is in the negative
Just before Dhanteras and Diwali this year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the November edition of its monthly bulletin. The latest RBI Monthly Bulletin says that the GDP has contracted by -8.6 percent in the second quarter of fiscal year 2020-21 (i.e. July-September, 2020) as compared to the gross domestic product (GDP) during the corresponding period last year. It may be noted that India’s GDP shrunk by -23.9...
More »Upper castes are trying to suppress us: Father of Nishad girl raped, murdered in UP’s Jaunpur -Sunil Kashyap and Shahid Tantray
-CaravanMagazine.in “The Thakurs in the village threatened me and said, ‘We will beat you so much you will go bald,’” a Middle-aged Nishad resident of the Peshawa Mai Ghat village in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, told us. The Nishads are a riverine community who were categorised as a Scheduled Caste in the state in 2019. On 30 May, the Nishad man’s minor daughter was found raped and murdered a...
More »Dhanbad cracks down: FIRs filed against 105, report says should probe phone records -Abhishek Angad
-The Indian Express The report, prepared by a probe team led by the Additional District Magistrate (Law and Order), calls for further investigation of Call Detail Records (CDRs) of key suspects and their connections. Ranchi: Moving in to probe the scholarship scam, the district administration of Dhanbad in Jharkhand has filed FIRs against 105 people, including Middlemen and local officials, based on the findings of an investigation by The Indian Express into...
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